The hottest highlights from this year’s Oscars will have to be the selfie moment created by Ellen Degeneres using a Samsung GALAXY Note 3. The Oscar selfie that includes herself, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Channing Tatum, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt,Angelina Jolie, Kevin Spacey, Jared Leto, and Lupita Nyong’o with her younger brother Junior.
This star studded selfie got over 2.8 million retweets and is now the most retweeted picture in the history of Twitter. The retweets were so overwhelming that it even shut down Twitter.
And for all these publicity, Samsung agreed to donate US$1 for every retweet it got. At The Ellen Show on Monday, Ellen announced that Samsung will be donating US$3 million to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Humane Society. To top it off, the audience on The Ellen Show received a new Samsung GALAXY Note 3.
But the biggest winner from this Oscar selfie has got to be Lupita’s brother, who got overnight stardom for taking a prominent spot in that selfie. He is currently a freshman in a Florida college.
