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March 2, 2014 / 11:28 PM

Oscars 2014: Ellen DeGeneres snaps the world's most epic selfie

This is the most-retweeted tweet ever.

LOS ANGELES, March 2 (UPI) -- Ellen DeGeneres just broke Twitter's record for the most-retweeted tweet of all time.

The Oscar host gathered a bevy of A-listers for her mid-ceremony selfie, including Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Street, Lupita Nyong'o, Nyong'o's brother, Jared Leto and Kevin Spacey.

Ellen DeGeneres is working really hard on her #selfie collection #Oscars pic.twitter.com/3wBnhlvhXF
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— UPI.com (@UPI) March 3, 2014

About 35 minutes after DeGeneres tweeted the photo, she broke the record set by Barack Obama's "Four more years" tweet in 2012.

The envelope please….to @TheEllenShow - this is now the most re-tweeted Tweet with over 1 million RTs. Congrats!
— Twitter (@twitter) March 3, 2014

DeGeneres scored more than 1,200,000 retweets to rival Obama’s 780,000.

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