Were you one of the nearly three million others who retweeted this photo? Ellen Degeneres/Twitter
By Terry Fredrickson
Here's a winning formula for a twitter world record: Be famous. Have famous friends. Have a lot of twitter followers. Take a selfie.
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Oscar selfie sets twitter world record
How do you set the world record for the highest number of retweets for a twitter message?
First, you probably need to be famous. Second, you'll probably need to include a photo with a lot of famous friends. Oh yes, it helps if you are hosting a television show seen by a world-wide audience, you have 27 million twitter followers and you encourage them to retweet your photo.
That is the formula Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres used yesterday. First she decided to take a selfie with award-winning actress Meryl Streep and then she started calling on other stars to join them – Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Spacy, Jered Leto, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong'o and her younger brother Junior.
She handed Bradley Cooper her smartphone and he took what is now the world's most retweeted twitter message.
As of this morning, it had been retweeted 2.9 million times, easily surpassing the previous record held by President Barack Obama whose post-election post in 2012 garnered a mere 800,000 retweets.
Incidentally, "If only Bradley's arm was longer," refers to the fact that there were more stars in the group, but they couldn't all fit in the photo.
Vocabulary
Academy Awards: the awards given every year by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievement in the making of films/movies - รางวัลอะแคเดมี (ภาพยนตร์)
actress: a woman who performs on the stage, on television or in films/movies, especially as a profession - นักแสดงหญิง
audience: the people who watch/listen to an event happen - ผู้ชม
encourage: to cause someone to want to do something - กระตุ้น ให้การสนับสนุน
famous: very well known - มีชื่อเสียง
formula: a list of the things that something is made from, giving the amount of each substance to use - สูตร
garner: to obtain; to get - ได้รับ, รวบรวมได้
host: a person who introduces guests and performers, especially on television or radio - พิธีกร, ผู้จัดรายการ
host: to introduce a television or radio programme, a show, etc. - ทำหน้าที่เป็นพิธีกร
incidentally: used for adding related but less important information to what has just been said or for suddenly introducing a new subject - อีกประการหนึ่ง
mere: not large or important - เพียงเท่านั้น
Oscar: an academy award; the actual statue or trophy given the winner -
selfie: a photo that you take of yourself, usually using a smartphone or a small camera -
surpass: to do or be better than somebody/something - เหนือกว่า, เก่งกว่า, ดีกว่า, เกินกว่า
world record: the best result or the highest or lowest level that has ever been reached in the world - สถิติโลก
