Monday, March 3, 2014

The most retweeted Twitter post EVER!

Ellen Degeneres' selfie at the Oscars is the most re-tweeted post/picture ever.  It literally broke the Twitter Servers as there were so many re-tweets happening at the same time.

The selfie that broke Twitter: Ellen DeGeneres' selfie with stars Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Meryl Streep (using her Oscars sponsor Samsung Galaxy phone) crashed the social networking site after it was retweeted 2 million times
  • The epic selfie that broke Twitter: Ellen DeGeneres's snap with Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and Meryl Streep gets retweeted by millions 
  • Broke the record for most retweets with 1.7 million in less than an hour
  • Tweet was favourited over 700,000 times (and counting...)
  • Ellen announced on stage that the tweet 'broke Twitter' as the site crashed because of the traffic from her picture 
  • Took the picture on her Oscar sponsor Galaxy phone which she whipped out at various points during the night
  • Beat record of 778,000 held by President Barack Obama

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2571848/Ellen-DeGeneres-wins-A-List-Oscars-crowd-gentle-teasing-Liza-Minnelli-not-impressed-mistaken-male-impersonator.html#ixzz2uurQJcrg
We're down: Twitter crashed during the broadcast after Ellen's tweet went viral

We're down: Twitter crashed during the broadcast after Ellen's tweet went viral
Posted by commoncents at 11:02 AM

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