TOKYO – Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawasaid Monday his tweet promising a cash giveaway of nearly $10,000 was themost retweeted ever.
The 43-year-old Maezawa posted a tweet on Saturday promising one millionyen ($9,250) in cash each to 100 randomly selected followers who hadretweeted it by Monday.
The tweet — now retweeted more than 4.3 million times — is the mostshared in history, according to the entrepreneur.
“Hit the new world record. Surpassed Twitter’s world record number ofretweets (it was 3.55 million RTs before) and more people are stillretweeting,” wrote the high-profile Maezawa.
The previous record-holder was an American teenager in 2017 trying to win ayear’s supply of chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy’s, according tomedia.
In October, Maezawa said he paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellowtycoon Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023.
Read Top Stories
Maezawa will hitch a ride aboard Musk’s Big Falcon Rocket, which SpaceX hasacknowledged may not be ready for human flight for at least five years.
Known as a passionate art collector, he also plans to take around half adozen artists with him on the trip.
Maezawa is chief executive of Japan’s largest online fashion store and isthe 18th richest person in Japan, with an estimated fortune of $2 billion,according to business magazine Forbes.
