US teen gets his chicken nuggets after appeal breaks Twitter record

A US teenager may have found the magic recipe to viral success after his tweet asking for a year's supply of chicken nuggets broke a social media record.
"HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS" on Tuesday became the most widely shared entry on Twitter with more than 3.4mn retweets, earning Carter Wilkerson a year's supply of chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy's.
Wilkerson composed the tweet on April 6, attaching a screen grab that shows Wendy's official Twitter account informing him that it would take 18mn retweets for the company to fulfil his wish.
That proved to perhaps be a tad unrealistic.
However, after the Guinness World Records confirmed that Wilkerson's appeal had broken the record for retweets, surpassing Ellen DeGeneres' famous selfie of a raft of A-listers at the Oscars, Wendy's reconsidered its offer.
"Consider it done," the fast food giant tweeted, later adding: "He gets them nuggs."
To mark the viral milestone, the company also donated $100,000 to the Dave Thomas Foundation, which helps find homes for children in foster care.
"Thanks to your love of nuggs, we'll be able to find more forever families for kids in foster care! Thank you @carterjwm & @Wendys!!" the charity wrote on its feed.
At just 16 years old, Wilkerson now has a Twitter following of 104,000.