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# A-List Oscar Selfie Breaks Twitter Record

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## Video: A-List Oscar Selfie Breaks Twitter Record

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_Published 2014-03-03. Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres wanted to break a Twitter record for most re-Tweets ever. She packed the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep and Angelina Jolie in one super selfie and made history._


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## Transcript

>> Looks like this might have broken Twitter Sunday night.

>> Lean in. Channing, if you can get in also. Channing--

>> Do you want me to take it?

>> Bradley, will you come in, no I want you in it.

>> I can take it.

>> Jennifer, come in also.

>> I'll take it.

>> Brad, get in here.

>> I'll take it.

>> No, I'm doing it.

>> Angie, Lupita, all right. Okay, wait.

>> Maybe this way. This way.

>> Somebody should drop a boob if we want this re- tweeted this many times.

>> Meryl--

>> Drop a boob. Somebody drop a boob.

>> Meryl-- Meryl--

>> Want me to do it?

>> Here, I'll do it.

>> No, Meryl. Can you take it, Meryl?

>> I'll drop a boob. It's fine, I swear.

>> What does that mean, 'drop a boob'?

>> Meryl, can you take it? I can't get everyone in here.

>> All right, I got a boob. I got a boob.

>> Is my arm further?

>> You arm--

>> All right.

>> My arm goes way further.

>> All right.

>> My arm's probably better.

>> Okay. Hey, that's good. Look at us.

>> Nice!

>> Not bad.

>> Oh yes! We did it!

>> Oh, I've never tweeted before!

>> The goal was for the A- list packed selfie to break a record for most retweets ever. Mission accomplished with more than 2. 5 million by Monday morning and possibly even temporarily breaking Twitter in the meantime. It apparently only took a little more than 30 minutes to crack the record for most retweeted. By the way, if you're curious, the previous record holder was this with more than 780, 000 retweets, President Obama's victory pic from reelection night in 2012. Guess the leader of the free world is no match for the likes of the gang behind Bradley Cooper and his long perfect- for- selfie taking arm.

I'm Elizabeth Hagedorn.

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