The 'like race' between Messi's photo and the egg

By 5:00 p.m. on December 20, the post on Lionel Messi's @leomessi account reached 56 million likes, setting a record for the most liked post on Instagram.

"World champion. How many times have I dreamed of it, I want it and that's why I have not fallen ..." is the content of Messi's article posted with 10 photos of this player and the Argentina team. won the World Cup 2022 championship on October 19. This is also the post with a record increase in likes, when it received tens of millions of times after one day.

Previously, the record for the number of likes on Instagram belonged to the photo of an egg. The photo is nothing special, posted on January 5, 2019, with the aim of setting a world record and reaching nearly 55.9 million likes, but has now dropped to second place.

Today, two photos were constantly "race for likes", when many people urged each other to like the egg photo to compete with Messi's photo. By afternoon, both had increased by millions of likes.

Messi also featured in the third most liked photo on Instagram, which was a photo of the player with Cristiano Ronaldo, posted on Ronaldo's account and reached 42 million likes.

Messi's account also increased sharply in terms of followers. He currently ranks third in Instagram followers with 401 million. Standing on top is Instagram's own account with 580 million and Cristiano Ronaldo's account with 519 million.

In addition to Instagram, Messi also uses Facebook and has more than 110 million followers.