The CEO of T-Mobile made a pretty unusual, and slightly petty, move. Hey, Hit 18m and we've got your food coma sleep pack ready. Good luck! Īnd other brands have also been quick to seize on the opportunity. If you get the 18 million RTs, we'll give you a free flight to take you to any in the world in a city we serve. United Airlines, who have been in the news recently themselves (although for reasons very different to Wendy’s), offered Carter a free flight to a city with a Wendy’s if he achieves his goal. Amazon April 8, Feeling lucky, #NuggsForCarter Microsoft threw their support behind the tweet, and encouraged Amazon and Google to do the same. #oscars /C9U5NOtGapĪfter all, when was the last time Wendy’s was in the news this much? Wendy’s has actually been pretty good at sharing a lot of the attention the tweet has received, which might be why it is coming so close to the record-breaking tweet sent by Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars, which hit 3.2 million. The tweet was sent on April 6 and has amassed almost 2.7 million retweets – still some way off what Carter needs, but very close to Twitter’s current top tweet. Nevada teen Carter Wilkerson, 16, needs 18 million retweets to get a year’s worth of free chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy’s, and the Twitterverse is doing everything it can to get that boy his nuggs. It’s taken less than a week for a kid who just really loves chicken nuggets to come within touching distance of the most retweeted tweet of all time.
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