Japanese billionaire and future SpaceX lunar orbit tourist Yusaku Maezawahas nabbed the record for most retweeted tweet ever. While previous record holder Carter Wilkerson's tweet came down to an appetite for Wendy's chicken nuggets, Maezawa's post won out because of our collective hunger for free cash.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="ja" dir="ltr">ZOZOTOWN新春セールãŒå²ä¸Šæœ€é€Ÿã§å–扱高100億円を先ã»ã©çªç ´ï¼ï¼æ—¥é ƒã®æ„Ÿè¬ã‚’è¾¼ã‚ã€åƒ•個人ã‹ã‚‰100åæ§˜ã«100万円ã€ç·é¡1億円ã®ãŠå¹´çŽ‰ã€‘ã‚’ç¾é‡‘ã§ãƒ—レゼントã—ã¾ã™ã€‚応募方法ã¯ã€åƒ•をフォãƒãƒ¼ã„ãŸã ã„ãŸä¸Šã€ã“ã®ãƒ„イートをRTã™ã‚‹ã ã‘。å—付ã¯1/7ã¾ã§ã€‚当é¸è€…ã«ã¯åƒ•ã‹ã‚‰ç›´æŽ¥DMã—ã¾ã™ï¼ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E6%9C%88%E3%81%AB%E8%A1%8C%E3%81%8F%E3%81%AA%E3%82%89%E3%81%8A%E5%B9%B4%E7%8E%89?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#月ã«è¡Œããªã‚‰ãŠå¹´çމ</a> <a href="https://t.co/cKQfPPbOI3">pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3</a></p>— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 剿¾¤å‹ä½œ (@yousuck2020) <a href="https://twitter.com/yousuck2020/status/1081544630754103296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The 43-year-old tweeted in Japanese on Saturday offering one million yen ($9,250) to 100 randomly chosen users on the basis that they followed and retweeted him. It worked a charm: the tweet, complete with a New Year's gift card of a rocket man that channeled E.T., has racked up over 5.1 million retweets at the time of writing. Comparably, Wilkerson's tweet currently has more than 3.5 million retweets. Maezawa, who founded Japan's largest online fashion retailer Zozotown and is worth an estimated $2 billion, promised to DM the winners today.
Back in September, Elon Musk said Maezawa has the disposable income to drop a "very significant amount of money" on funding his own trip to the moon. It turns out he also had enough cash leftover to give away for free on Twitter.
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