Japanese billionaire responsible for the most retweeted tweet ever


  • TECH
  • Monday, 07 Jan 2019

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s expanding list of cash-fuelled bragging rights includes Picassos, Bugatti supercars and a ticket on Elon Musk’s rocket to the moon. He can now add to that collection the mantle of having the most-ever retweeted Twitter post. 

For the honour, the founder of Japan’s second-largest online shopping site Zozo Inc will be paying out a total of 100mil yen (RM3.80mil) to 100 lucky people who shared the post. Seeking to be one of the randomly chosen winners, Maezawa’s audience retweeted his post a record 3.8 million times, and gave it more than 900,000 “likes”. 

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