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"This year, it seems like Twitter has won the Oscars.\r\n\r\nEllen DeGeneres's epic Oscars group selfie has become the most retweeted tweet of all time, surpassing a whopping one million retweets (update: it has now passed two million) and overtaking the record set by US President Barack Obama's election victory tweet\u00A0in November 2012.\r\nIf only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap\r\n\r\n\u2014 Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014\r\nUPDATE: Twitter has announced that there were more than 14.7 million Oscars-related tweets during\u00A0the live show -- from 8.30 pm ET to 12 am ET. The most tweeted-about nominees included Jennifer Lawrence and Brad Pitt, while Gravity and Oscar best picture winner 12 Years a Slave were among the films that got the most mentions on Twitter.\r\n\r\nTwitter has been fanning the Oscars hype to new levels this year -- it added\u00A0a new type of card that allows users to vote for their favorite nominees, and teamed up with\u00A0Livefyre\u00A0for\u00A0an Oscars photo campaign that\u00A0takes selfies tweeted by fans, displays them at a rate of 10 images per second next to a celebrity, snaps a photo with a slow motion camera, and then tweets it back out to individuals.\r\n\r\nThumbnail image via Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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