A post by Harry Styles about One Direction's fourth anniversary is the most retweeted message on Twitter in the UK this year.

The singer took to the social networking website on July 23 to write:

"4 years. Thank you to everyone who is involved in this. I feel so lucky to be part of it. Everyone who has worked with us thank you.."

Twitter have now confirmed that the post has been retweeted more than 359,000 times to make it the most retweeted tweet from a UK account in 2014.

At the time of writing, Harry Styles has 22.8 million followers on the website.

Six of the ten most mentioned tweets this year in the UK meanwhile were about the summer's World Cup event.

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