Ellen’s Oscars Selfie Beats Obama Tweet Record; Did It Crash Twitter? from Deadline.com

 

My wife is a huge fan of the Oscars, and I am a tech and autism blogger, so I was intrigued by the tweet that Ellen Degeneres did at the Oscars 2014, that crashed twitter. I wish our tech and autism news efforts were that popular.

I was intrigued by the whole pizza thing, and found it to be funny, different and compelling. My wife and I are fans of Ellen Degeneres and have been for many years. I would love to go on her show to talk about life with autism.

The following is an interesting but brief piece on the whole situation–>

By  | Sunday March 2, 2014 @ 8:00pm PSTTags: Ellen DeGeneresOscarsTwitter

Oscars selfie EllenUPDATE, 8:00 PM: In less than an hour Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres beat President Obama‘s Twitter record for Twitter retweets. Ellen’s on-the-fly pic with Bradley CooperJennifer LawrenceBrad PittJulia RobertsMeryl StreepKevin Spacey, and more is racking up the Twitter love with over 1M RTs and over 720K favorites and counting.

PREVIOUS, 7:30 PM: Twitter crashed for a brief time Sunday night — shortly after Ellen DeGeneres piled a dozen Oscar nominees and attendees into one selfie during the Oscars telecast in an attempt to break the record for most re-tweets. Even the Academy apologized for contributing to the Twitter traffic jam. Coincidence?

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