On Sunday night, Ellen DeGeneres tweeted a not-quite-selfie from the Oscars to her 25 million followers, which caused a brief outage on Twitter and set a new record for retweets on the social network. Since then, a number of accounts have tried, however jokingly, to beat her record.
A Peanuts Twitter account for Snoopy, which has nearly 250,000 followers, tried to break the record the next day and has received a little more than 3,600 retweets.
The official Homer Simpson account, which has more than 1.5 million followers, also had a go on Tuesday night and got 22,000 retweets
Around the same time as the Simpson’s tweet went out, Terry Shipman, a small business owner from Beaumont, Texas, with almost no followers jokingly tweeted that he wanted to break the record as well. He posted a picture of himself at home on a couch with his two dogs and added a few simple words: “Let’s see if we can beat the Oscar re-tweets.” Read more…
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