Japanese billionaire Maezawa responsible for the most retweeted tweet ever

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s expanding list of cash-fuelled bragging rights includes Picassos, Bugatti supercars and a ticket on Elon Musk’s rocket to the moon. He can now add to that collection the mantle of having the most-ever retweeted Twitter post. For the honour, the founder of Japan’s second-largest online shopping site Zozo will be paying out a total of 100 million yen ($920,000) to 100 lucky people who shared the post. Seeking to be one of the randomly chosen winners, Maezawa’s audience retweeted his post a record 3.8 million times, and gave it more than 900,000 “likes.”

The previous record