<p class="title">Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa said on Monday his tweet promising a cash giveaway of nearly $10,000 was the most retweeted ever.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 43-year-old Maezawa posted a tweet on Saturday promising one million yen ($9,250) in cash each to 100 randomly selected followers who had retweeted it by Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tweet -- now retweeted more than 4.3 million times -- is the most shared in history, according to the entrepreneur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Hit the new world record. Surpassed Twitter's world record number of retweets (it was 3.55 million RTs before) and more people are still retweeting," wrote the high-profile Maezawa.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The previous record-holder was an American teenager in 2017 trying to win a year's supply of chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy's, according to media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In October, Maezawa said he paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maezawa will hitch a ride aboard Musk's Big Falcon Rocket, which SpaceX has acknowledged may not be ready for human flight for at least five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Known as a passionate art collector, he also plans to take around half a dozen artists with him on the trip.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maezawa is chief executive of Japan's largest online fashion store and is the 18th richest person in Japan, with an estimated fortune of $2 billion, according to business magazine Forbes.</p>
<p class="title">Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa said on Monday his tweet promising a cash giveaway of nearly $10,000 was the most retweeted ever.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The 43-year-old Maezawa posted a tweet on Saturday promising one million yen ($9,250) in cash each to 100 randomly selected followers who had retweeted it by Monday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The tweet -- now retweeted more than 4.3 million times -- is the most shared in history, according to the entrepreneur.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Hit the new world record. Surpassed Twitter's world record number of retweets (it was 3.55 million RTs before) and more people are still retweeting," wrote the high-profile Maezawa.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The previous record-holder was an American teenager in 2017 trying to win a year's supply of chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy's, according to media.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In October, Maezawa said he paid an undisclosed sum for a ticket on fellow tycoon Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket around the moon as early as 2023.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maezawa will hitch a ride aboard Musk's Big Falcon Rocket, which SpaceX has acknowledged may not be ready for human flight for at least five years.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Known as a passionate art collector, he also plans to take around half a dozen artists with him on the trip.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Maezawa is chief executive of Japan's largest online fashion store and is the 18th richest person in Japan, with an estimated fortune of $2 billion, according to business magazine Forbes.</p>