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Teen reaches all- time retweet record
RENO Carter will get his nuggs.
Carter Wilkerson, 16, of Reno, reached the top of the Twitter game Tuesday morning with the most retweets ever ( 3.441 million as of 11: 24 a. m. ET), surpassing previous record- holder Ellen DeGeneres’ 3.430 million.
And he’ll get his chicken nuggets, plus $ 100,000 to a national charity.
On Tuesday, Wendy’s announced that # NuggsforCarter was the retweet champ.
“That’s good for the nuggets, and $ 100k to @ DTFA,” Wendy’s Twitter account said.
The DTFA is the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
As of 11: 24 a. m. ET/ 8: 24 a. m. PT on Tuesday, the # NuggsforCarter tweet had 3,441,701 retweets.
The previous record- holding tweet from @ TheEllenShow had 3,430,751.
Last month, Wilkerson accepted a challenge from Wendy’s official fast food Twitter account to get 18 million retweets in exchange for a year’s supply of chicken nuggets.
Wilkerson, a student at Manogue High School, started the legendary social media campaign in early April when he tweeted: “Yo @ Wendys how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets” as a joke. Wilkerson said at the time that he didn’t really expect a reply.
Wendy’s replied with “18 million.”
That number would be 5% of Twitter’s monthly active global users.
Carter replied, “Consider it done” and posted a screenshot of the exchange. Five weeks later, history was made.