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This list of most-retweeted tweets contains the top 30 tweets with the most retweets (an account's tweet that is sent again by additional accounts without any change) of all time on the social networking platform Twitter; Twitter does not provide an official list but news and mainstream media make lists. As of February 2021, the top tweet has over 4.2 million retweets and was tweeted by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Four accounts have more than one of the most-retweeted tweets in the top 30: South Korean band BTS has seventeen, while Maezawa and YouTube personalities El Rubius and Jimmy Donaldson each have two.

List

The following table lists the top 30 most-retweeted tweets on Twitter, the account that tweeted it, the total number of retweets rounded to the nearest ten thousand, and the date it was originally tweeted. The notes include the details surrounding the tweet.

See also

• List of most-followed Twitter accounts
• List of most-liked tweets
• List of most-subscribed YouTube channels
• List of most-disliked YouTube videos
• List of most-liked YouTube videos
• List of most-liked Instagram posts

Notes

1. On January 5, 2019, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa made a tweet in which he promised to give away 100 million yen ($924.3k USD) between 100 random individuals who followed his account and retweeted the tweet. The tweet quickly grew popular in Japan, and surpassed Carter Wilkerson's tweet within 24 hours.
2. On January 1, 2020, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa made a tweet in which he promised to give away 1 billion yen ($9.223 million USD) between 1,000 random individuals who followed his account and retweeted the tweet.
3. Carter Wilkerson tweeted Wendy's asking how many retweets he needed for a year of free chicken nuggets. When Wendy's replied with "18 Million", he accepted the challenge. The tweet received unlikely support from several major companies including Microsoft, Amazon and Google, prompting the hashtag #NuggsForCarter and propelling the tweet to become the most-retweeted within 34 days, at which point Wendy's gave him a year of free nuggets.
4. Tweet announcing the death of American actor Chadwick Boseman. Boseman died after complications with colon cancer, which he had been diagnosed with four years prior; the diagnosis was only made public after his death. It is the most retweeted tweet of 2020.
5. Ellen DeGeneres's star-studded selfie from the 86th Academy Awards includes Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, Channing Tatum, Meryl Streep, Lupita Nyong'o and a few others. Within 35 minutes, the tweet surpassed Barack Obama's "Four more years" tweet to become the then most-retweeted tweet of all time with over 800k.
6. This tweet by One Direction member Louis Tomlinson is a reference to the relationship between himself and fellow band member Harry Styles, also known as Larry Stylinson. It surpassed 770,000 retweets in January 2015 and overtook Barack Obama's "Four more years" tweet to become the then second most-retweeted tweet of all time, only behind Ellen Degeneres's Oscar selfie tweet. The post's retweet count gradually increased as the band's popularity continued to grow.
7. El Rubius, a Spanish YouTube influencer, said in a video that his followers could enter a drawing for prizes by retweeting the tweet that consisted of the Spanish word for lemonade and a Moái Easter Island emoji.
8. Video clip of BTS member Jungkook singing "Never Not" by American singer Lauv. The tweet accumulated 1 million likes within two hours; it was additionally the fastest in 2020 to reach 1 million views.
9. This tweet was the first of three, by former US President Barack Obama, quoting a passage from Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, in response to the 2017 Charlottesville attack. The accompanying picture, taken in 2011 by former White House photographer Pete Souza, shows Obama visiting a day care center in Bethesda, Maryland. Twitter publicly confirmed four days later, on August 16, 2017, that it had become the new most-liked tweet on the platform ever with over 3.3 million likes at the time of announcement. The tweet surpassed previous record holder Ariana Grande's Manchester tweet on August 15, 2017, when it reached 2.7 million likes three days after being posted.
10. Video clip of BTS member Jungkook dancing to "Bad Guy" by American singer Billie Eilish. Initially ranked as the second most retweeted tweet globally of 2019, it became the most retweeted tweet of the year in less than an hour of Twitter announcing its year end list.
11. BTS tweeted this video of the band celebrating in response to the news that their latest single "Dynamite", released on August 21, 2020, had remained at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a second consecutive week.
12. BTS member V posted a pair of selfies from behind-the-scenes of a photoshoot. In December 2020, Twitter revealed that his tweet was both the most-liked K-pop related tweet and the most-liked BTS tweet of the year with 3.2 million likes.
13. Video clip of BTS member Jungkook singing the BTS remix version of "Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)" by New Zealand music producer Jawsh 685 and American singer Jason Derulo.
14. BTS member V tweeted this video of him wishing fellow bandmate Jungkook a happy birthday in Korean in celebration of Jungkook's 23rd birthday that day.
15. This tweet contains a phrase that would eventually be adopted as the official slogan for the fanbase.
16. BTS member J-Hope posted a video of him doing the #InMyFeelingsChallenge, a viral internet dance trend created by social-media comedian Shiggy for Canadian rapper Drake's song, "In My Feelings". The clip was Twitter's most liked tweet of 2018, as well as the most liked and retweeted tweet in South Korea that year.
17. BTS posted this video of them reacting to the live announcement of their song "Dynamite" receiving a nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
18. This tweet contains a phrase used by BTS every time they achieve certain milestones. They have tweeted the phrase seven times in seven years.
19. Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, is the owner of a YouTube channel that is well-known for giving large amounts of money to strangers. In this tweet, Donaldson promised to give USD$10,000 to a random Twitter user that retweeted the tweet and followed his Twitter account, in celebration of his birthday.
20. BTS member Jungkook posted a selfie with self-dyed blue hair.
21. Pennsylvania State University's Interfraternity Council pledged to donate $0.15 for every retweet they received in order to both support and further encourage relief efforts in Houston following the event of Hurricane Harvey.
22. Fighting is a Korean expression which can also be translated as "Good luck".
23. American singer Ariana Grande tweeted this several hours after her performance at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017. A suicide bombing had occurred after the end of the concert in the foyer of the arena; the explosion killed 23 people (including the attacker) and injured 250 more.
24. This tweet was made by BTS in response to the killing of George Floyd and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

References

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