BTS Army makes Jungkook video Twitter’s most retweeted tweet in 2019; ‘World Record Egg’ well and truly beaten
- Video of K-pop star Jungkook lip syncing and dancing to Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy surged to more than a million retweets to pass the ‘World Record Egg’
- Twitter also announced that BTS were the most popular K-pop act of 2019 on its platform
After Twitter initially crowned a tweet about an egg as the most retweeted in 2019, the title was snatched away by fans of K-pop giants BTS when they propelled a video of band member Jungkook dancing to the No 1 spot on Tuesday.
The 19-second video of K-pop star Jungkook lip syncing and dancing to Billie Eilish’s Bad Guy was in second place when Twitter unveiled 2019’s most retweeted tweets and top-trending hashtags on Monday.
But in the hour after the announcement, the retweets surged and reached more than a million, surpassing those of the “World Record Egg”, which had some 950,000 retweets.
Twitter revised its rankings and declared that the tweet from BTS had become the most retweeted in 2019. The social media site originally counted retweets from January 1 to November 15.
The tweet of the egg – a stock photo of an egg against a white background – was published in January with the goal of becoming the most retweeted tweet in the world.