Ellen DeGeneres has broken President Obama's record for most Twitter retweets with her Oscar selfie, that features the likes of Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Kevin Spacey, in less than an hour.
According to Deadline.com, the pic, which has been retweeted over 1 million times and has got over 720,000 favorites till now, also lead to the crash of the social networking site for a while.
DeGeneres wrote, alongside the pic, that her selfie was the best photo ever.
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