WHAT do a former US president, LeBron James and a guy who really, really likes chicken nuggets have in common? They all made the biggest splash on Twitter this year.

Twitter released its top trending people and topics for 2017 overnight, and they ranged from sports to politics to Korean boy bands.

The number one retweeted tweet came from Carter Wilkerson, who begged people to retweet him so that he could get a year’s worth of free chicken nuggets from fast-food chain Wendy’s.

The 3.6 million retweets fell short of the 18-million bar set by the fast-food chain, but Wendy’s gave Wilkerson the nuggets anyway for the effort.

Coming in second with 1.7m retweets was former US president President Barack Obama, who took three of the top 10 spots on the list.

Obamas most ‘liked’ post was in response to the Charlottesville white supremacist marches a few months, and includes a picture of him interacting with a group of kids of different races.

It includes a Nelson Mandela quote white reads: “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion.”

Obama also had three of the top nine most retweeted tweets of 2017, while his successor didn’t crack either list.

In fact, Twitter fan Donald Trump didn’t even come close.

Mr Trump’s most liked tweet of 2017 was a put down of North Korean president Kim Jong-un, which got 617,132 likes last month.

Obama’s most liked photo had more than four million. Trump’s most retweeted tweet, a video edited to look like he was beating up CNN, got 363,477 retweets, while Obama’s most retweeted tweet was shared more than 1.7 million times.

NBA basketball star LeBron James was seventh with a tweet that criticised President Donald Trump over his decision to rescind Stephen Curry’s invitation to the White House to celebrate the Golden State Warriors’ NBA championship.

Curry, and others on the team, said that he didn’t want to visit Trump in the White House.

But Donald Trump did have one win — he took the top spot for the most tweeted about elected world leader.