There Is a New Record-Holder for Most Retweeted Tweet of All Time

Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who sort of cheated by promising money

One of the richest men in Japan has wrested the title of creator of the most retweeted tweet from an industrious teenager, but he had to offer more than $900,000 in gifts to his 6.1 million followers to do it.

That man is Yusaku Maezawa, billionaire founder of ecommerce company Zozotown, whose tweet at 8:35 a.m. EST on January 5 has 5.6 million retweets and 1.4 million likes and counting as of 11:30 a.m. EST on January 7.

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