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                   Oscars Host DeGeneres Sets Re-Tweet Record

   With one picture, comedian and Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres set
   a new milestone on Twitter with the most shared tweet in the history of
   the microblogging service.
   Comedian Bradley Cooper snapped the picture of DeGeneres surrounded by
   a group of Hollywood stars during Sunday night`s broadcast. DeGeneres
   tweeted it, and within hours Twitter users had re-tweeted it more than
   2.1 million times.
   That beat a photo posted by U.S. President Barack Obama after his 2012
   re-election, which got 780,000 re-tweets.
   Besides Cooper and DeGeneres the group in Sunday`s photo included Jared
   Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie,
   Lupita Nyong`o, Julia Roberts and Kevin Spacey. Together they have won
   11 Oscars.
   The tweet caused so many people to use Twitter at once that the service
   had trouble keeping up with the demand and had intermittent outages for
   about half an hour.
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