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1M+ retweets in the first hour.

Did this end up being the most-ever retweetet tweet? Who holds that record now?

Ellen is already at 1M+

And it's passed Obama's tweet now.

I'm assuming this is due to the Oscars and not due to something meaningful like the (potential?) war in Ukraine?

No official comment (yet).

Edit: Here we go -

Brief service issue 14 minutes ago

Between 19:05 and 19:29 PST today, some users may have experienced issues viewing and sending Tweets on twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile apps.

Traffic was redirected away from the components that were experiencing problems, and the issue has now been resolved.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Screenshots for both twitter's downtime page and ellen's tweet: http://snipek.com/web/aebfd1b7-41eb-401e-8ea3-c873c449127b

Screenshot ...

Yes, it's back now. Thumbs up for twitter's ops team!

Thank Ellen for that :)

and its back.

yup

Is Twitter down now?