--- title: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Most Shared Tweets 2016 description: While Donald Trump has one of the most-watched Twitters in the world right now, a tweet by Hillary Clinton is in the lead for a 2016 record. canonical: https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-06T19:36:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:13.763Z og:title: The Most Shared Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tweets of the Year og:description: See who holds the retweet record og:url: https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Most Shared Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tweets of the Year twitter:description: See who holds the retweet record twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Were the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tweets Everyone Shared the Most This Year > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 6, 2016 7:36 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 6, 2016 7:36 PM UTC While [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4591829/china-donald-trump-diplomatic-rookie/) has one of the [most-watched Twitter feeds](http://time.com/4592043/donald-trump-twitter-poll/) in the world right now, a tweet by his former opponent [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4591705/time-person-of-the-year-today-show-poll-hillary-clinton/) is firmly in the lead for a 2016 record. Clinton’s tweet — which quotes a closing statement from her Nov. 9 [concession speech](http://time.com/4564480/read-hillary-clintons-concession-speech-full-transcript/) — has been retweeted nearly 636,000 times, making it this year’s most-shared U.S. tweet and the third most-shared overall, according to [Twitter](https://blog.twitter.com/2016/thishappened-in-2016). “To all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams,” it reads. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/796394920051441664) The Democratic nominee also has command of the second most-shared political tweet, earning over 556,000 retweets with her June “delete your account” response to a tweet from Trump criticizing Barack Obama’s endorsement of her. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/740972317191352320) Trump holds the third spot on the political list, garnering over 351,000 retweets with an early morning call-to-action from Election Day. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/795954831718498305) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/"},"headline":"These Were the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tweets Everyone Shared the Most This Year","datePublished":"2016-12-06T19:36:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:13.763Z","description":"See who holds the retweet record","url":"https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Hillary Clinton","Social Media","politics","twitter","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4592159/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-most-shared-tweets-2016/","name":"These Were the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Tweets Everyone Shared the Most This Year"}}]}] ```