Random Teen Breaks Ellen’s Twitter Record, Gets A Year Of Free Nuggets
A confident high schooler swung for the fences and recently asked Wendy’s how he could earn a year’s-worth of free chicken nuggets. In true snark form, Wendy’s replied with “18 million,” re-tweets, and thus began Carter Wilkerson’s mission for an impossible amount of re-tweets to get the prized nuggets.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
While you’d think no one would pay this teen from Nevada any mind, he got an infinite amount of support for his #nuggsforcarter hashtag.
From local politicians…
@carterjwm , also known as #NuggsForCarter lives in Assembly district 26, which I represent! Please retweet. pic.twitter.com/hL26E1gjpf
— Lisa Krasner (@TheLisaKrasner) April 28, 2017
…to CEOs…
Hey @carterjwm, sorry you have @ATT. Switch to @TMobile & I’ll give you a year of free @Wendys chicken nuggets myself + more! Seriously. https://t.co/RmVygHPPob
— John Legere (@JohnLegere) April 8, 2017
… and even the legendary Ric Flair, millions of people were supporting Carter’s nugget cause.
To eat the nuggs, you gotta retweet the nuggs- WOOOOO! #NuggsForCarter @Wendys @TheRock @TheEllenShow https://t.co/EWX3D6NhtI
— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) May 2, 2017
Now it is officially the most re-tweeted tweet of all time, beating out Ellen DeGeneres’ famous selfie tweet at the 2014 Oscars.
That Ellen tweet, featuring Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and even Julia Roberts, received 3.43 million re-tweets.
If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014
Carter’s tweet passed Ellen’s with 3.46 million re-tweets Tuesday, which fell short of Wendy’s demand, but Wendy’s went ahead and gave him a year supply of nuggets anyway.
.@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
As you can imagine, Ellen was a little peeved that her record tweet was broken, and threatened to send Bradley Cooper to take Carter’s TV and underwear:
Absolutely not. Sending Bradley Cooper to pick ’em up. https://t.co/fSDZxM89Sl
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) May 9, 2017
So Carter Wilkerson now owns the re-tweet world record, and Wendy’s took it a step further by donating $100,000 to the Dave Thomas Foundation, which helps foster children find homes.
From top to bottom, this has to be the best story of 2017, so far.
