this image is not available
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy

Earlier this week, 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson achieved social media fame with the most retweeted tweet in history. The tweet, posted on 5 April, asked Wendy's how many retweets he would need for a year of free chicken nuggets. The fast food chain responded with an ambitious 18 million, and while Carter only has a little over 3.5 million now, Wendy's decided to grant him his request for breaking such a monumental record.

Inspirational story, we think you'll agree.

xView full post on X

Of course, lots of people jumped on his viral bandwagon, including Ellen Degeneres, who brought him onto the show to confront him edging her out of having the most retweeted tweet ever with her viral Oscars selfie. They even took a selfie together in an effort to tie for first place.

And then United Airlines, in an attempt to resuscitated their dying image, tried to get in on the action.

"If you get the 18 million RTs, we'll give you a free flight to take you to any in the world in a city we serve. Good luck!" they wrote.

Obviously, Twitter was merciless in their subsequent roasting.

From: Delish US