Japanese Billionaire Fires Up Twitter With Free Money Pledge

  • Yusaku Maezawa offers $9 million to followers who retweet
  • Founder of online site Zozo pulled similar stunt last year
Yusaku MaezawaPhotographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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A tweet from a Japanese billionaire to distribute 1 billion yen ($9 million) to his followers is attracting plenty of attention.

Yusaku Maezawa pledged to give 1 million yen each to 1,000 of his Twitter followers who reposted a message from his @yousuck2020 account. It has been retweeted 4.1 million times since the New Year.