You should never doubt the power of the internet and especially social media. A few days ago, a young man named Carter Wilkerson asked Wendy"s via Twitter how many retweets it would take to earn a year"s worth of free chicken nuggets. The fast food chain replied with an almost impossible number of 18 million. This would likely discourage a majority of folks, but it appears that Wilkerson was up for a challenge as he responded with a confident "Consider it done".
Now, this is the part that gets interesting as Microsoft and a few other companies have banded together to rally with Wilkerson in his quest for free nuggets.
With the help of the internet, the retweets have reached a colossal number of nearly 1.8 million. Although Wilkerson will have to amass a number ten times his current earned, it looks like there could be other ways that he could still get that year of free nuggets.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere has reached out and has offered a free year of nuggets and more if he makes the switch from AT&T to T-Mobile. That"s not a bad offer if things don"t work out in the long run.
Source: Carter Wilkerson (Twitter) via OnMSFT