Unless you’ve been living in a box for the past couple weeks, you’d undoubtedly heard about the now infamous selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres during the 2014 Academy Awards. Ellen DeGeneres, who hosted the show, took a moment to compose a selfie in the audience with the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie, amongst others. She then proceeded to ask viewers to retweet it. The results were astounding. The tweet, taken March 2, has since been retweeted almost 3.5 million times with almost 2 million favorites. It shattered the record for retweets of 780,000 times, which was previously held by President Barak Obama when he tweeted a photo of himself and his wife embracing after being re-elected. While those numbers are certainly impressive, the bigger story is exactly what that means in terms of exposure. Twitter posted a blog article 3 days after the show detailing the anatomy of a tweet. On Marc...
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:35:13 +0000
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