As 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson took to twitter, hoping to strike a deal with Wendy’s for free chicken nuggets for a year; he is also on the run to set the new world record for retweets!
Last week, Carter tagging the food chain’s handle on Twitter asked for the number of retweets he would need to get a free supply of nuggets for a year. “18 million,” the brand responded!
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
His venture got a lot of attention from the micro-blogging site. The hashtag “#nuggsforcarter” is taking off, classmates are posting pictures with him on Twitter, and he even gained the attention of Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul.
After various appeals by personalities, Carter has garnered over 2.5m retweets. Meanwhile, Wendy’s has neither confirmed or denied if they will live up to their end of the bargain, but they did tweet that it would be “pretty awesome” if he reached his goal.
Taking to the media, Carter said that he had no idea of the response which he received.
“I sent out the tweet as a joke, but then they responded with the outrageous number,” he said in an interview
“I thought [it] would be funny among my friend group. Then I put the screenshot up and it started gaining momentum,” he added.
He surely didn’t expect the intriguing response and reactions he received:
@carterjwm Will retweet if I get 100 and you negotiate for those 100 to be spicy nugs
— Calvin Luu (@calvin_luu) April 6, 2017
This man is only 700,000 retweets away from the most retweeted tweet of all time @Wendys #NuggsForCarter pic.twitter.com/oTYoyX4FqG
— Marshall (@mhmorgan99) April 11, 2017
You’ll need a comfortable chair to eat those nuggets in. We’ll send you a DXRacer if you get that 18 million retweet goal. #NuggsForCarter https://t.co/TM5Yc4wiLj
— DXRacer (@DXRacer) April 11, 2017
@Microsoft @Google @Microsoft Oh, we are so in. #NuggsForCarter
— Amazon (@amazon) April 8, 2017
One concerned Twitter user estimated that the year’s supply worth of chicken nuggets would cost Wendy’s around $650 dollars, while Mr Wilkerson’s 18m retweets would be worth the equivalent of $72,000 in advertising!
Chief executive of T-mobile, John Legere, offered to personally pay for Mr Wilkerson’s supply of chicken nuggets if only he switched his mobile provider to his company.