OT - Kid Gets Free Wendy's Chicken Nuggets for a Year with Most Retweeted Tweet of All-Time
Back in April, Carter Wilkerson asked Wendy's how many retweets he would need to get free nuggets for a year. Wendy's twitter account replied "18 Million"
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
In just over a month, Carter broke Ellen's record for most retweets for a single tweet with a little over 3.4 million. While he's still a few short of 18 million (is that even possible?), Wendy's rewarded his record by fulfilling his wish. Pretty cool if you ask me.
.@carterjwm is now the most retweeted tweet of all-time. That’s good for the nuggets, and $100k to @DTFA. Consider it done. #nuggsforcarter pic.twitter.com/k6uhsJiP4E
— Wendy's (@Wendys) May 9, 2017
Why didn't I think of that?!
Just goes to show how few people actually use Twitter. They claim to have 313M monthly active users, but 3.4M is the most RTd tweet of all time. This tweet got a ton of publicity and high profile RTs. The guy even went on Ellen. I would have guessed the most RTd tweet was much higher than that.
313m active users seems rather high. But then, I think that tweet was RT'd by significantly fewer than half the active people I follow. On the third hand, a lot of the people I follow are content types who aren't likely to retweet it.
I didn't, generally not being the type to retweet this sort of thing, but I gave it a second thought.
Exactly. I use twitter almost strictly for content, like news and sports updates. I rarely actually tweet and never am one to retweet something like this. Kudos to him, however.
Your avatar is like, really cool dude.
And I'm being serious. Just wanted to let you know.
EATING THE NUGGS WITH EUTM
I forsee Carter gaining some weight over the coming year and no longer enjoying chicken nuggets like he used to...
But you'll let us know if he does . . .
How's those audits going for The Donald?
Been taking forever.
It was a kid that asked for free food, that's it. This kid was invited on Ellen, because he asked a corporate account for free food. On Twitter. I saw someone in the replies to Wendy's tweet say "well-deserved" - are they serious?
Cases and cases of condoms... or 2 if you're WD just because he can use them as water balloons.
who uses condoms!?
So he's getting a 3pack of condoms?
What's second place - free nuggets for two years?
Shit maybe I should get off twitter
great PR.
United Airlines should be taking notes.
What would United offer? Free assistance deboarding your flight?
I was thinking along the lines of: One of our customers has done enough that we should graciously conceed him the victory.
But a trap-door to a Slip n Slide when overbooked works too!
Where I'm from, "nugs" mean something else. Though, I'd be down for "free nugs for a year". Maybe I need to retweet my local dispensary.
1st world problems.
This kid is going to absolutely hate chicken nuggets in 90 days or less.
Discontinued the spicy chicken nuggets.
WHAT!?
McDonalds was doing the 20 nuggets for $5 deal. Someone bet me I couldnt eat 60 in 20 minutes. i finished them in 18 minutes. Had nuggets for lunch the next day. I still eat them when Im in the mood to let the kid have a happy meal
I once had 20 coupons for free Chipotle burritos, all of which expired 25 days after I was given them. I used about 12 and gave the rest away. I did not eat there again for six months.
Carter is pretty cool, if you ask me.
Agreed. He's atoning for his misguided fandom by eating a nugget for every point Clemson would have scored if the game continued indefinitely.
Enjoy your nuggets while we enjoy huge discounts at Ruth's Chris.
WAT!?!?!?!
He's Russian, they don't have Wendy's there...
Thought that pic of you wrestling the bear was the most retweeted in the world
4'11" Russian President vs 7' Grizzly
Headquartered in that cowtown down south