Obama's post-Charlottesville tweet is more tanned in the history of Twitter

A message of tolerance of former US President Barack Obama after the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend has become the most popular in the history of Twitter - social media reported on Wednesday (16).

The tweet of the first black president of the United States cited the late South African leader Nelson Mandela.

"No one is born hating another person for the color of their skin, or their origin, or their religion," Obama tweeted Sunday after the clash in Charlottesville (Virginia) between neo-Nazi militants and anti-racism protesters.

By 10am this Wednesday, Obama's tweet had already received 3.2 million "tanners" on the network. It has been retouched at least 1.3 million times.

The president spoke out about the riots only on Twitter and quotes from Mandela, the icon of the South African Apartheid fight, who died in 2013.

A photo accompanying the tweet shows four babies - including a black girl and a blond boy - in a window, looking at Obama, who is very close to them.

Two other Obama tweets without photos had more than a million "tanned"