The most retweeted tweet ever

Yusaku Maezawa, founder of Japanese online retailer Zozotown, got +5 Million retweets with a budget of 9200 USD

Top three most retweeted tweets

#3. Ellen De Generes’s Oscar selfie with 3.3 Million retweets

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres) March 3, 2014

#2. Wendy’s and Carter Wilkinson with 3.6 Million retweets

HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017

#1. Yusaku Maezawa with +5.5 Million retweets

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
— 前澤友作 (@yousuck2020) January 5, 2019

Yusaku Maezawa is very famous person. He is running a very successful business. Would these qualities combined help create record breaking amount of retweets? No. In his tweet he is actually making a promise to share cash to 100 people that engage with his tweet. There you go - nothing beats free cash 😉

Honorable mention

Just to give you context, Obama’s tweet “four more years” from 2012 got +800k retweets.

Four more years. pic.twitter.com/bAJE6Vom
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012

The peak on Twitter is very sharp.