Ellen DeGeneres has broken a Twitter record after a picture of her posing with Hollywood celebrities at the Oscars was retweeted more than two million times.
When Ellen posted it on her twitter page, it broke twitter record for most retweets. The pic got over 2.2million retweets beating the 780,000 most retweets previously held by President Barack Obama. The tweet also ‘broke Twitter’ as the site crashed for a few minutes because of the traffic from the pic described as the ‘best photo ever!’
The picture of DeGeneres surrounded by Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey, Lupita Nyong’o, her brother Peter and Brad Pitt was taken by American Hustle star Bradley Cooper and titled: “If only Bradley’s arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars.”
Within an hour the picture had received 870,000 retweets and had been “favourited” 210,000 times.
“We crashed and broke Twitter. We have made history,” DeGeneres told the crowd during the broadcast after the picture went viral.
Twitter had to send out an apology because all of the retweeting disrupted the service for more than 20 minutes.
Truly a classic photo!
