List of most-retweeted tweets

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The account of the South Korean boyband BTS has posted 19 of the 30 most retweeted tweets.

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.[1][2] As of November 2024, the top tweet has over 4 million retweets and was tweeted by Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. Three accounts have more than one of the most-retweeted tweets in the top 30: South Korean band BTS has nineteen, while Maezawa and YouTubers El Rubius and Hikakin 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 down to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally tweeted. Tweets that have an identical number of retweets are listed in date order with the most recent tweet ranked highest. The notes include the details surrounding the tweet.

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Rank Tweet Posted by Retweets (millions) Date posted Context
1 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[3] Yusaku Maezawa
@yousuck2020		 4.0 January 5, 2019 [upper-alpha 1]
2 🎍謹賀新年🎍
【総額10億円】#前澤お年玉 100万円を1000人にプレゼントします！
100万円で皆さまの人生がよりハッピーになりますように。
応募方法は僕のフォローとこのツイートのリツイート。締切は1月7日23:59まで。
企画趣旨や当選条件などはYouTubeで説明してます。[5]		 Yusaku Maezawa
@yousuck2020		 3.2 December 31, 2019 [upper-alpha 2]
3 HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS[7] Carter Wilkerson
@carterjwm		 3.1 April 5, 2017 [upper-alpha 3]
4 [It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV... ][9] Family of Chadwick Boseman
@chadwickboseman		 2.9 August 28, 2020 [upper-alpha 4]
5 If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever #oscars[12] Ellen DeGeneres
@TheEllenShow		 2.9 March 2, 2014 [upper-alpha 5]
6 Always in my heart @Harry_Styles . Yours sincerely, Louis[14] Louis Tomlinson
@Louis_Tomlinson		 2.8 October 2, 2011 [upper-alpha 6]
7 #ヒカキンサンタ のプレゼント🎅🎄🎁
わたくしヒカキンをフォロー&この投稿をリツイートで【総額1,000万円分】iPhone 13が103名様に当たります🎉🤣🎊
応募締切は12/25(土)23:59まで！
詳しくはYouTube動画とこのツイートのリプライをご覧ください😎👍
https://youtu.be/fAaUrN7TXxw
#クリスマスボックス[18]		 Hikakin
@hikakin		 1.8 December 18, 2021 [upper-alpha 7]
8 Never Not 💜[20] Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.7 May 3, 2020 [upper-alpha 8]
9 LIMONADA 🗿[23] El Rubius
@Rubiu5		 1.6 August 20, 2016 [upper-alpha 9]
10 "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."[25] Barack Obama
@BarackObama		 1.5 August 12, 2017 [upper-alpha 10]
11 Duh😛[28] Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.4 June 9, 2019 [upper-alpha 11]
12 LIMONADA 2.0 🗿[30] El Rubius
@Rubiu5		 1.4 September 29, 2018
13 teamwork makes the dream work.[31] BTS
@BTS_twt		 1.4 March 19, 2013 [upper-alpha 12]
14 This is just...
#우리아미상받았네[32]		 BTS
@BTS_twt		 1.3 September 8, 2020 [upper-alpha 13]
15 정국이 생일축하해요이?[34] V
@BTS_twt		 1.3 September 1, 2020 [upper-alpha 14]
16 #ヒカキンスイッチプレゼント 🎮🎁
わたくしヒカキンをフォロー&この投稿をリツイートで【総額150万円分】Nintendo Switch有機ELモデルを40名様にプレゼント🎉
逃走中の賞金で買いました！🏃💰🤣
締切は2/6(日)23:59までYouTube動画とツイートのリプライもご覧下さい！👀
https://youtu.be/Sz-ZCB7ioEY
#クリスマスボックス[36]		 Hikakin
@hikakin		 1.2 January 28, 2022 [upper-alpha 15]
17 Savage Love 🎶 #SavageLoveRemix[38] Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.2 October 8, 2020 [upper-alpha 16]
18 Hi Army😊[40] V
@BTS_twt		 1.2 August 16, 2020 [upper-alpha 17]
19 우리 형 !! 잘 다녀와요!! 💜러뷰💜[43] BTS
@BTS_twt		 1.1 December 13, 2022
20 💘 @Harry_Styles 💝[44] J-Hope
@BTS_twt		 1.1 November 20, 2021
21 셀프 염색 :)
#JJK[45]		 Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.1 February 24, 2021 [upper-alpha 18]
22 😙[47] Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.1 January 24, 2021
23 Ohmmmmmmyyyyyyyyggghghhhhhhhgggggggggdhdhsjsixudbslsogbdsisgshdbxidjdbdidhdifjfiri
#GRAMMYs
#BTS[48]		 Jimin , Jungkook, RM & V
@BTS_twt		 1.1 November 24, 2020 [upper-alpha 19]
24 teamwork makes the dream work ![51] BTS
@BTS_twt		 1.1 September 8, 2020 [upper-alpha 20]
25 #InMyFeelingsChallenge
#HopeOnTheStreet[52]		 J-Hope
@BTS_twt		 1.1 July 23, 2018 [upper-alpha 21]
26 아미 보고 싶다 ㅜ[58] Jungkook
@BTS_twt		 1.0 April 11, 2021
27 #StopAsianHate
#StopAAPIHate[59]		 BTS
@BTS_twt		 1.0 March 29, 2021 [upper-alpha 22]
28 🎂 Happy Birthday to me 🎂[62] RM
@BTS_twt		 1.0 September 11, 2020
29 증국아 24살 생일 축하한다
형이 사랑한다
#JIMIN
#정국생일ㅊㅋ[63]		 Jimin
@BTS_twt		 1.0 August 31, 2020
30 ready? #vcut[64] V
@BTS_twt		 1.0 August 21, 2020

See also

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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.[4]
  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.[6]
  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.[8]
  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.[10] It is the most retweeted tweet of 2020.[11]
  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.[13]
  6. ↑ This is a tweet by One Direction member Louis Tomlinson to fellow band member Harry Styles.[15] It is noted among One Direction fans known as Larries.[16] 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.[17] The post's retweet count gradually increased as the band's popularity continued to grow.[15]
  7. ↑ Japanese YouTuber Hikakin made a tweet in which he promised to give away 103 iPhone 13 smartphones (worth ¥10 million in total) as a holiday gift to random individuals who retweeted the tweet and followed his account.[19]
  8. ↑ Video clip of BTS member Jungkook singing "Never Not" by American singer Lauv.[21] The tweet accumulated 1.5 million retweets.[22]
  9. ↑ Spanish YouTuber El Rubius 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.[24]
  10. ↑ 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.[26] The accompanying picture, taken in 2011 by former White House photographer Pete Souza, shows Obama visiting a day care center in Bethesda, Maryland.[26] 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.[26] 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.[27]
  11. ↑ 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.[29]
  12. ↑ This tweet contains a phrase that was eventually adopted as the official slogan of the group's fanbase.
  13. ↑ 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.[33]
  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.[35]
  15. ↑ Japanese YouTuber Hikakin made a tweet in which he promised to give away 40 Nintendo Switch OLED model consoles (worth ¥1.5 million in total) to random individuals who retweeted the tweet and followed his account.[37]
  16. ↑ 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.[39]
  17. ↑ BTS member V posted a pair of selfies from behind-the-scenes of a photoshoot.[41] 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.[42]
  18. ↑ BTS member Jungkook posted a selfie with self-dyed blue hair.[46]
  19. ↑ 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—they became the first Korean pop artist in history to be nominated for a Grammy.[49][50]
  20. ↑ This tweet contains a phrase used by BTS every time the band achieves certain milestones. They have tweeted the phrase seven times in seven years.
  21. ↑ BTS member J-Hope posted a video of him doing the #InMyFeelingsChallenge,[53] an internet dance trend created by social-media comedian Shiggy for Canadian rapper Drake's song, "In My Feelings".[54] The clip accumulated over 500,000 retweets in 24 hours.[55] It was Twitter's most-liked tweet of 2018 globally[56] and in South Korea.[57]
  22. ↑ BTS tweeted a message in response to an increase in racially motivated violence against Asian people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.[60] According to Twitter's year-end review, it is the most-retweeted tweet of 2021.[61]

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