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# This Lionel Messi post has broken all social media records of all time
- URL: https://www.techloy.com/messi-breaks-social-media-record/
- Published: 2022-12-22T17:20:22.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-22T17:20:22.000Z
- Author: Emmanuel Oyedeji
- Tags: / Entertainment, Social Media

Following Lionel Messi leading Argentina to win the FIFA World Cup in Qatar this year, the football star's celebratory photo dump is now the most-liked item on the Internet.

The post, featuring a picture carousel of the footballer with the trophy and with his teammates celebrating their historic win, is now the most-liked Instagram post ever, sitting at over 71 million likes as of December 22, and surpassing all the records for the most-liked post on all prominent social media platforms including, a mysterious Instagram post of a simple egg that garnered 57 million likes after being posted in 2019.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/c1/a6/c1a6d111-d951-41ad-a392-c1e841210b93/content/images/2022/12/Screenshot--13-.png)

The screenshot was taken by Techloy on December 22, 2022\. Credit: @LeoMessi / Instagram

Other notable most-liked posts across social media include Twitter's record of 7 million likes, for a tweet announcing the tragic death of *Black Panther* actor Chadwick Boseman; YouTube's record of Luis Fonsi's music video for "Despacito" with 50 million likes; and Bella Poarch's wildly-viral TikTok from 2020, which has over 60 million likes. 

This news comes amid other social media-related records being broken all because of the renowned football tournament.

According to Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, messaging platform, WhatsApp reached a record 25 million messages per second during the Argentina-France final.

Twitter CEO, Elon Musk also revealed that during the Qatar finals, the social media platform [Twitter saw over 24,000 tweets each second](https://www.techloy.com/twitter-impressions-peaked-during-the-qatar-world-cup-final/). This came when Kylian Mbappe scored the second goal for France to tie Argentina in the final match.

Meanwhile, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also shared a tweet saying that "Search recorded its highest ever traffic in 25 years during the final of #FIFAWorldCup, it was like the entire world was searching about one thing!"