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title: "TechCrunch: The #NuggsForCarter Kid Has Set The Record For Most Retweets Ever"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/924ce8af-4010-4835-8099-ec4199a8b0ec
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/techcrunch-the-nuggsforcarter-kid-has-set-the-record-for-most-retweets-ever-12124
category: "Fast casual"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Fast casual"
published: 2017-05-09T15:10:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:12:52.357Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/82d62dd4e9bc9137e4a6f3f24bd2c450347.jpg
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# TechCrunch: The #NuggsForCarter Kid Has Set The Record For Most Retweets Ever

**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.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-05-09. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/techcrunch-the-nuggsforcarter-kid-has-set-the-record-for-most-retweets-ever-12124).*

## Story

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.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Wendy's (company)
- Twitter (company)
- Google (company)
- Microsoft (company)
- fast food promotion (topic)
- social media record (topic)
- viral tweet (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/techcrunch-the-nuggsforcarter-kid-has-set-the-record-for-most-retweets-ever-12124). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/924ce8af-4010-4835-8099-ec4199a8b0ec).