Los Angeles April 12 (IANS) A 16-year-old boy from Nevada in the US is on track to break the record of the most retweeted tweet for a quest to get a year of free chicken nuggets.
With 3.3 million retweets the most retweeted record holder right now is talk show host Ellen DeGeneres which is a group selfie taken by Bradly Cooper at the Oscars award show in 2014.
As of Tuesday Carter Wilkerson s plea has 2.6 million retweets less than one million away to break that record.
Wilkerson last Wednesday tweeted at Wendy s a fast-food chain store and asked them how many retweets were needed for a year of free chicken nuggets.
Wendy s replied with 18 million. Wilkerson replied Consider it done and posted the screenshot of this conversation with Help me please a man needs his nuggs to ask for retweets.
I sent out the tweet as a joke Wilkerson told the Reno Gazette-Journal but then they responded with the outrageous number... Then I put the screenshot up and it started gaining momentum.
As his plea is going viral Google Amazon United Airlines and many other companies have joined Wilkerson s quest for chicken nuggets and retweeted his post.
Wilkerson s father suggested that at this point it s great if it has a great cause other than eating chicken nuggets for a year.
Wilkerson has taken his father s suggestion and set up a website where he is planning to sell #NuggsforCarter T-shirts.
The proceeds will be donated to help families of Breast Cancer Patients an educational scholarship and to a local breast cancer non-profit organisation called Mom s on the Run according to the website.
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Plea for free chicken nuggets tweet to break retweet record
