Virat Kohli's Tweet Supporting Anushka Sharma is The Golden Tweet of 2016

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Virat in his tweet had encouraged his fans and critics, who attributed his outstanding performance in the ICC World T20 to their break-up, to focus on empathy and community building.

Every year Twitter comes out with a Year on Twitter in India report. This year in 2016, Virat Kohli's tweet in support of Anushka Sharma was the Golden Tweet on Twitter or to put it simply the most Retweeted Tweet of 2016.

Shame on people for trolling @AnushkaSharma non-stop. Have some compassion. She has always only given me positivity pic.twitter.com/OBIMA2EZKu— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) March 28, 2016

Virat in his tweet had encouraged his fans and critics, who attributed his outstanding performance in the ICC World T20 to their break-up, to focus on empathy and community building. His tweet got Retweeted more than 40,000 times and got more than 1.07 lakh likes.

It's an emphatic example of an Indian youth icon using Twitter’s public platform to change the conversation by standing up for the woman in his life and advocating a more positive online behaviour. It was well-appreciated by his followers on Twitter and other like-minded individuals, which helped make it this year’s Golden Tweet.