Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese business owner and and SpaceX’s very first personal traveler, broke the Twitter record for many retweeted tweet over the weekend.
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The Japanese billionaire who’ll be Elon Musk’s very first paying traveler for a journey to the moon utilized his deep pockets to get the most retweeted tweet on perpetuity over weekend.
Yusaku Maezawa, who was exposed as the secret SpaceX moon traveler back in September, had 4.8 million retweets since Monday early morning, squashing Carter Wilkinson’s 2017 effort to get a complimentary 1 year supply of chicken nuggets out of Wendy’s.
The 43- year-old creator of online style shopping center Zozotown on Saturday tweeted that its New Year’s sale generated 10 billion yen (around $92,310,000) at the fastest rate ever and provided to divide 100 million yen (around $924,000) in between 100 arbitrarily chosen individuals who shared his tweet.
ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100 億円を先ほど突破 ！ ！ 日頃の感謝を込め 、 僕個人から100 名様に100 万円 総額1億円のお年玉 を現金でプレゼントします 。 応募方法は 、 僕をフォローいただいた上 、 このツイートをRTするだけ 。 受付は1/ 7まで 。 当選者には僕から直接DMします ！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3
— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019
“With thankfulness, I will provide you 100 million yen [100 million yen grand price for 100 people] from people in money. To use, simply follow me and simply RT this tweet. Receptionist depends on 1/7. I will DM straight from winners!,” checks out his translated tweet.
On Monday, he tweeted his thanks to his fans for assisting him accomplish a retweet world record. Later that day, Twitter confirmed that Maezawa had actually taken the most retweeted title.
Maezawa had a significant monetary benefit over Wilkinson, a Nevada teenager who exceeded Ellen DeGeneres’ 2014 Oscar selfie with 3.6 million retweets after Wendy’s informed him he ‘d require 18 million to secure free nuggets. Ellen’s tweet was retweeted 3.3 million times.
Electronics maker Sharp riffed on Maezawa’s tweet with a funny push for individuals to purchase its items, as formerly kept in mind by Quartz.
“With our gratitude, we would be grateful if many more than 100 people could buy 1 million yen of products (totalling 10 billion yen). The application method doesn’t involve having to RT or follow us, you can just buy it from any store. Taking applications forever,” the business wrote in Japanese.
First released onJan 7 at 4: 12 a.m. PT.
Updated onJan 8 at 2: 43 a.m. PT: Adds Twitter verification.
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