Ellen Degeneres set out to break the record for the most retweeted image and quickly succeeded when she orchestrated a celeb-packed selfie while hosting the Oscars in 2014
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00:00 (audience laughing)
00:03 (upbeat music)
00:05 - I heard about that.
00:14 I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt myself.
00:16 - The whole joke was I'm just gonna try to get Meryl
00:23 out of the picture to take the picture
00:25 and she wouldn't be in it at all.
00:26 And I kept trying to get her out of the picture
00:28 and you were like, "No, no, no, I got it."
00:30 (upbeat music)
00:33 - He just saw that opportunity and he was like,
00:42 "I'm getting in, this is my only chance."
00:44 - Oh, I've never tweeted before.