Bradley Cooper took Ellen's Oscar selfie not Bradley Manning, corrects Guardian
It is now the most retweeted picture ever. And it was quickly followed by one of the most retweeted corrections ever. ...
It is now the most retweeted picture ever. And it was quickly followed by one of the most retweeted corrections ever.
Last night at the Oscar ceremony, host Ellen DeGeneres gathered a group of front-row celebrities to pose for a selfie.
The goal was to make it the most retweeted photo ever. And because it was Ellen at the Academy Awards, and because the picture included stars like Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts: mission accomplished. At the time of this writing, that selfie had been tweeted more than two-point-eight million times. The previous record holder was President Obama's re-election tweet, which garnered a now-measly seven-hundred-and-seventy-eight thousand retweets.
Shortly afterward, The Guardian newspaper published a story online about the selfie record. And shortly after that, it published this correction, quote:
"This article was amended on third Marsh 2014. The original stated that Bradley Manning took Ellen's selfie. In fact, it was Bradley Cooper. This has been corrected."
Slight difference -- Oscar nominee, Wikileaker, who doesn't mix them up? But even better, that correction was then corrected, because it did, indeed, say "Marsh" -- M-A-R-S-H -- instead of March.
In their defence, it was 4 A.M. in London. And I'm sure they were tired. And omigod Ellen just broke the Twitter record! Or maybe they just wanted in on the retweet action. Again, mission accomplished.
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