TL;DR
Carter Wilkerson set the record for most retweets ever with about 3.5 million retweets, but fell short of Wendy's 18 million target for a year's supply of chicken nuggets. Wendy's is still giving him a year's supply of free nuggets and making a $100,000 donation to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in his name.
At about 3.5 million retweets, Carter Wilkerson is the most retweeted person on Twitter. Wilkerson asked Wendy’s on Twitter how my retweets he would need for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets. The fast food restaurant replied with “18 million.” The tweet ended up going viral with stars like "Breaking Bad"'s Aaron Paul and companies such as Microsoft and Google endorsing it.
While he fell about 14 million retweets short, but it’s still a new record, surpassing Ellen DeGeneres' Academy Award selfie tweet. Despite falling short, Wendy’s is still giving him a year’s supply of free nuggets and making a $100,000 donation to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption in Wilkerson’s name.
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This story was originally published in 1851 Franchise on May 9, 2017. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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