![]() ![]() His favorite dipping sauce? Honey mustard. Surprisingly, Wilkerson’s first reaction wasn’t to immediately drive to Wendy’s after completing his nugg journey - mostly because he had a full day of school ahead of him.īut, when Wilkerson finally had a chance to go, he went with his classic order of a 10-piece chicken nugget meal. He posted a screenshot pleading for retweet help, and the rest is (truly now) history.Īfter Carter's tweet started closing in on DeGeneres' record, the goal became to beat the TV talk show host's celebrity-studded Oscar night selfie. It all started on April 5 when Wilkerson tweeted: “Yo how many retweets for a year of free chicken nuggets?” Related: Ellen teased #NuggsforCarter and issued a new challenge It’s going to happen this morning.’ Then, it happened. “I woke up this morning, and I needed 300 more (retweets),” Wilkerson said in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal. ET, his plea for nuggs was retweeted 3,505,305 times. ![]() #NuggsForCarter became the most retweeted tweet in Twitter history Tuesday morning, surpassing previous record-holder Ellen DeGeneres. ![]() What started out as an innocent tweet to Wendy’s official Twitter account quickly turned into a worldwide effort to get Carter Wilkerson his nuggs, and the Twitter world’s efforts won. The quest for a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s is just one thing a 16-year-old from Reno crossed off his junior year to-do list. Watch Video: 'Nugget kid' reaches all-time retweet record ![]()
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