Teen reaches all-time retweet record
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.