March 04, 2014

The Academy Award Selfie that Crashed Twitter


Ellen Degeneres literally took down Twitter  before it was up again. Imagine 500,000 hits in a couple of minutes with 300,000 favourites.

The pack-jammed response to the selfie  is indicative of how many globally are twitter-tropic or twitter freaks.

A selfie is just a self-portrait photo of a singular person while those of a group is called a group selfie.

In this case, who owns this historically captured group selfie?

By right, it is the person who took the shot.

As much as we want to label it the Ellen Selfie, the copyright will actually belong to Bradford Cooper who took the shot even though he may not claim any copyright to it for now.

Let's look at this selfie. Who are in it?

Yes, besides Ellen and Bradford,there is Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Lupita Nyong'o, Kevin Spacey, a partial Angelina Jolie  and some others I cannot identify for now. This selfie also excluded a partial Jared Leto seen in an alternative selfie.

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