Within minutes of Barack Obama sending a tweet of thanks last night to his followers for their support in securing four more years in the White House it had become the most popular of all time.

President Obama's 'Four more years' tweet, which also features a picture of him embracing the First Lady, quickly racked up more than 350,000 retweets and 100,000 votes as favorite tweets and they're still counting.

It has easily beaten the previous record for most popular tweet, which was ‘RIP Avalanna. i love you’ by Justin Bieber in September with 223,376 retweets.