Beyonce pregnancy announcement breaks Instagram record

Beyonce set Instagram ablaze with a record-setting post announcing that she's pregnant with twins. Queen Bey's surprise news, accompanied by a highly stylized photo of herself wearing lingerie, draped in a veil and clutching her bulging belly, notched 7.12 million likes in 12 hours after she posted it to Instagram Wednesday. The post also got over 3,60,000 comments in that time — and the numbers are still climbing. That already beats previous record holder Selena Gomez, whose Instagram sponsored post of herself sipping a Coke last June has garnered 6.3 million likes to date (and 250,000 comments).

The 20-time Grammy winner's news also was burning up Twitter, which reported 500,000 tweets about the twins announcement in the 45 minutes after her Instagram post went up

Beyonce — with 92.9 million followers — however, is not the 'Queen of Instagram'. That title belongs to Gomez, who has 108.4 million followers, while Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande also have bigger Instagram followings than Beyonce.

Beyonce and husband Jay Z (aka Shawn Carter) also have a 5-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. “We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over,” Beyonce wrote in her Instagram post.