Yusaku Maezawa, founder and CEO of Japan’s largest online fashion retailer, Zozotown, promised to hand out ¥100 million ($920,000) in cash to 100 people who follow his account and retweet his post by Jan. 7.
If his goal was to pad out his social media presence, his stunt certainly worked.
His original post has nearly 5.5 million retweets as of Tuesday, Quartz reported, making it the most shared tweet of all time.
ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3
— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019
The monetary incentive seemed to significantly help Maezawa’s tweet. The post has now officially surpassed that kid who wanted free nuggets from Wendy’s for a year (3.8 million retweets) and Ellen DeGeneres’s 2014 Oscar’s selfie (3.3 million).
The Japanese billionaire’s tweet competition was a way for him to thank Zozotown’s customers after its New Year’s Eve sale helped the company reach ¥10 billion yen in sales at the fastest pace ever.
The tweet was hashtagged “a New Year’s gift for going to the moon.”
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