Record breaking chicken nuggets tweet triggers $100k donation to charity

The record-breaking success of a US teenager's tweet asking for a year's supply of chicken nuggets from a fast food chain has generated a corporate donation of $100,000 to charity. Carter Wilkerson in Nevada tweeted to Wendy's on 6 April, asking how many retweets he would need in order to receive a year's free supply of chicken nuggets. https://twitter.com/carterjwm/status/849811828766949376 Wendy's replied within a minute or so, with a terse and seemingly insurmountable "18 Million". That did not put Wilkerson off. "Consider it done" he replied. He took a screenshot of the Twitter conversation and posted it, asked for help from Twitter users in reaching that target. It wasn't poetry, but it got noticed. https://twitter.com/carterjwm/status/849813577770778624 Eighteen million retweets is a tall order, given that the then record of most retweeted tweet was the 3.43m achieved by actor Ellen DeGeneres' selfie of fellow actors at the Oscars ceremony. Yet Wilkerson's tweet has now passed that, and is at 3.54 million retweets. https://twitter.com/GWR/status/861939344285814784   To mark the breaking of the record, Wendy's made a donation to charity of $100,000 or around £78,000. This was given to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, a nonprofit set up by the founder of Wendy's in 1992. https://twitter.com/Wendys/status/861938018806095872 https://twitter.com/DTFA/status/861941580692951041    

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