Green Bay Packers lineman T.J. Lang tweeted this after Monday night's debacle, in which the Seattle Seahawks were mistakenly given a game-winning touchdown by the NFL's replacement refs.
I screenshotted that tweet at 9:59 a.m., in case it gets deleted. (A whole bunch of Packers tweeted things that could end up getting deleted.) Here's the embed, though, in case it doesn't disappear:
And here, for comparison, is President Obama's tweet about same-sex marriage, which was previously thought to be one of the most retweeted tweets ever.
Even with a four-month head-start, President Obama's tweet trails Lang by more than 15,000 retweets.
So is it the most retweeted tweet of all time? It has better numbers than any of the tweets on Favstar's "most retweeted" list, but the numbers here aren't perfect. However, according to this list by TwitSprout, it trails a couple examples. A Floyd Mayweather tweet from January, aided by Justin Bieber, has over 90,000 retweets.
And this classic — Justin Bieber quoting LMFAO — has 120,000 retweets.
But that Bieber tweet is nearly a year old, and Mayweather's has been around for 8 months. Considering that Lang's only came about 12 hours ago, there's good reason to believe that it'll at least outpace Mayweather's and even, potentially, catch Bieber's.
Justin Bieber, gay marriage, and the NFL: these are the stuff that Twitter dreams are made of.