The most retweeted tweet ever is a billionaire’s giveaway of free money

Here’s a sure way to make your tweet very, very popular: free money.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder of online fashion retailer Zozotown and funder of SpaceX’s trip to the moon, promised in a tweet on Sunday to giveaway 100 million yen ($924,000) to be shared among 100 random people.

The competition was posted in celebration of Zozotown reaching 10 billion yen in sales, and the mechanism to win is pretty simple: All one needs to do to enter is follow Maezawa on Twitter and retweet the post. Maezawa said he would personally message the winners when the contest finishes. Read more…

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