Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa, has taken Twitter by storm with a single tweet. All it took to reach the new milestone was a promise of free money for people.
Maezawa, on Saturday, posted a tweet from his official Twitter account in which he promised to distribute 100 million yen ($924,000) to be shared among 100 random people.
The method to enter the contest is simple: All you have to do is to follow Maezawa on Twitter and retweet his tweet.
The billionaire announced to personally message the lucky ones when the contest finishes. The competition was arranged in celebration of Maezawa’s online fashion retailer Zozotown reaching 10 billion Yen in annual sale.
ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3
— 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019
His tweet, with a promise of free money, attracted 4.72 million retweets until Monday morning, breaking the previous record of 3.5 million retweets, held by Carter Wilkerson.
Wilkerson’s tweet went viral, in which he attempted to achieve the target of 18 million retweets set by Wendy’s, to receive a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
The teenage guy couldn’t get to the set target, he, however, won the free nuggets supply for setting up a new retweets record.
Carter’s tweet surpassed the US comedian and TV host Ellen DeGeneres’s four years old record of 3.3 million retweets. His celebrity-filled selfie at the 2014 Oscars blew up the internet at the time; the photo now has 3.53 million total retweets.
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) March 3, 2014
Ellen Degeneress is a SHE and the selfie wasn’t hers although it was uploaded from her twitter account. The selfie was Bradley Cooper’s