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Ellen DeGeneres and the Oscars take down Twitter

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I want to say this is their first major outage since going public (someone please correct me if that is incorrect). I wonder if the markets will care about this in the morning?

So, I don't use twitter, but I find it odd that clicking the link on a mobile device (iPhone) takes me to a landing page where I must log in or create an account to see what is being referenced. There isn't a link directly to the content.

I guess I'm not the target audience, but it really feels like I'm being turned away at the door of a particularly wonderful party that everyone is talking about.

I think it was pointed at Twitter, because Twitter was down momentarily. The actual post is shared in the comments.

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432

Obama record (778 000 retweets) is broken, Ellen is now at 1M+

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/266031293945503744

I'm wondering, exactly what is it about this post that makes so many people want to share it? I tend to ignore most pop-culture stuff, is there something all historic going on here?

It gives a glimpse into the lives of actors one wouldn't otherwise see in the same image, while making them appear more human and approachable.

Overrated? Maybe.

at 643,000 retweets in 36 minutes. Wow!

The tweet that is the culprit, on track to beat Obama's for number of retweets.

https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow/status/440322224407314432

Oh. I'd assumed pmarca went on a tweeting rampage one too many times.

I was reloading her picture (the first she posted during Oscar) and it was shared more than 500 times per second. When it was retweeted about 70000 times, the retweet and favorite status counter was not available anymore.

Just crossed 1,000,000 and it's too wide for the container.

I'm only seeing 848K

It's well north of that. http://imgur.com/Mb2IcT9

Edit: Refreshed right after posting that it was at 1.15 million.

Just minutes ago it was at 1m+, now it's back at 700k+.

People removing their retweets? is that even possible?

Each reload may get results from distinct servers that may be not yet updated with the current number.

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