In April, Carter Wilkerson set out on a mission to get free chicken nuggets for a year. What he may not have known was that his inquiry would become the most retweeted tweet of all time.
It was his fondness for nuggets that inspired Wilkerson to ask Wendy’s how many retweets he needed to get free chicken nuggets for a year. Wendy’s, playing along, set the bar high: 18 million.
Shortly after Wendy’s response, the 16-year-old from Reno, Nev., took a screenshot of the conversation and asked fellow nugget lovers to help him because, as he tweeted, “a man needs his nuggs.”
On Tuesday, Wilkerson’s plea for free nuggets broke the retweet record, according to Guinness World Records. His tweet was shared more than 3,470,000 times. Previously, the most shared tweet was Ellen DeGeneres‘ Oscars selfie, which Guinness said had 3,430,249 retweets as of Tuesday.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3 — Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
Source: NPR
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