Recently Twitter blew up thanks to selfie taken at the
Oscars. The selfie was seen all over the
world, and it was retweeted 3million times. Ellen DeGeneres the host of the 86th
Academy Awards took an opportunity and gathered the film industry’s biggest
stars for a selfie that broke Twitter- and that helped to clarify which social
media platform won the night.
Whether it was planned or not, Twitter was a constant
presence throughout the entire Academy Awards. Degeneres promised she would be
tweeting throughout the night. Her
tweets were retweeted between 26,000 to 170,000 times, which makes sense since
there were about 1 billion people watching their televisions during the show.
According to Twitter there were more than 14.7 million Oscar telecast-related
tweets during the live...