JAPANESE BILLIONAIRE BREAKS TWITTER RECORD: HIS POST BECOMES MOST TWITTED EVER!
A Japanese billionaire, Yusaku Maezawa has posted the most retweeted message on Twitter in the platform’s 13-year history.
Celebrating bumper sales for his online fashion retailer, Yusaku Maezawa dangled a cash gift of one million yen (£7,250) to 100 people in the Tweet posted on Saturday.
It has since been shared more than four million times.That is half a million more than the previous record claimed by a US teenager requesting help to secure himself a year of free chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy’s The number of people following Mr Maezawa’s account surged from around 500,000 at the end of last week to more than 4.5 million by lunchtime today.
He is best known internationally as being first private passenger due to be flown around the Moon by Space X, the company owned by billionaire Elon Musk.
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