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​Messi’s World Cup post makes instagram history

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 


Owner of Facebook and Instagram Mark Zuckerberg says “Leo Messi's World Cup post is now the most liked in Instagram history.”

Mr. Zuckerberg took to his Facebook page on Tuesday evening to make the announcement in which he also informed users of his online community applications that on that day: “WhatsApp also reached a record 25 million messages per second during the final.”

In less than a hour after Mark’s posted the record breaking announcement on his Facebook handle which has some 119 Million plus followers, his post got over 243,000 reactions plus 24,800 comments, and the it being shared some 15,000 times.

Although, Mark didn’t stated in his post, the exact number of likes which the Argentine National Football team skipper Lionel Messi’s World Cup post had amassed to become the Instagram user with the most like post in the social media platform’s history, I’ve learned that the said post as of 18:00GMT on Tuesday was liked 64,108,732 times.

Unarguably, this latest history for the multiple times FIFA/Ballon Do’r World Best player has added to the pool of histories he has made in his soccer journey, letting him to now bless become the greatest player alive.

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