Embarrassing outcome for kid who tried to win a cruise ship

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12 Apr, 2018 03:00 AM2 mins to read

Dylan Baer came up with a cunning plan to win a Oasis of the Seas (pictured). It didn't go well. Photo / Supplied

This kid thought he'd come up with the perfect plan to win a $1.8 billion cruise ship — until a single tweet brought it all crashing down.

Dylan Baer, from Iowa, claimed on Twitter cruise giant Royal Caribbean agreed to give him a cruise ship of his very own if he could get retweeted two million times.

It appeared Dylan was trying to emulate the success of chicken nugget-loving teen Carter Wilkerson, who last year won 12 months' worth of free food from fast food restaurant Wendy's after he took up their challenge of getting retweeted 18 million times. Not only did Carter's mission go viral, he ended up with most retweeted tweet ever.

Please help, man needs his boat! 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/19f2yO7x7b
— Dylan (@DylanBaer) April 3, 2018

Dylan was not so successful.

Last week he tweeted a screencap of what appeared to be a message exchange between himself and Royal Caribbean.

"How many retweets for a boat??" Dylan asked the cruise company in the exchange.

"2 million and Oasis of the Seas is all yours," it replied.

Dylan then appealed to the Twitterverse to help him get enough retweets to claim the $1.8 billion Oasis of the Seas.

The retweets came rolling in. A few people tried to call his bluff. But Dylan was adamant the arrangement was real.

Among the many, many holes in Dylan's story, one person pointed out the blue tick next to Royal Caribbean's name in the alleged message exchange looked a bit wrong.

"It's not photoshopped you're just using a android," Dylan shot back.