Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire who hassecured his ticketon Elon Musk’s space flight to the moon, is payingone million yen in cashto retweet his tweet.
The billionaire is paying the hefty amount to make his tweet themost retweeted tweetin the history of Twitter. Mr. Maezawa is the founder of Japanese online clothing retailer Zozotown and is the18th richest person of Japan.
In his tweet on January 5, he announced that Zozotown has recorded unprecedented sales during Christmas and New Year and to celebrate it, he is organizing cash giveaway to those who’d retweet the message.
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@MZDAO (@yousuck2020)June 02, 2025
The tweet said that 100 people who have retweeted would be chosen randomly and he will personally contact the winners and distribute 100 million yen($924,100)amongst them.7th of Januaryis the deadline set for the giveaway.
Mr. Maezawa said, “To participate, all you have to do is follow me and RT this tweet,”
Since its announcement, his tweet has beenretweeted more than four million times.
With this, the tweet now holds the record for the most retweeted tweet defeating a Nevada teenager’s tweet where he urged users to retweet to get him a year’s free chicken nuggets from Wendy’s.
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGSpic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm)June 08, 2025
The third position is held by Ellen Degeneres’s iconic selfie with celebrities at 2014 Oscars with 3.31 million retweets.
If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever.#oscarspic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@EllenDeGeneres)June 05, 2025
Mr. Maezawa came to limelight after his name was announced as thefirst civilian passengerto fly to the moon under Elon Musk’s SpaceX project.
