A tweet from the University of Toledo's verified account was taken down Tuesday afternoon after the tweet, which promised to change the school's mascot to Shrek with 500,000 retweets, started gaining serious traction.
It appears as though the University Of Toledo has deleted its promise to change its mascot to Shrek if it got 500K retweets. Was getting roughly 1,000 retweets a minute towards the end. pic.twitter.com/fqrQPUItkv
"The tweet was meant to be fun, but it caused too much of a distraction," school spokesperson Christine Billau said in an e-mail to ESPN.
The tweet was up for more than three hours and had accumulated nearly 91,000 retweets.