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Star-studded selfie goes viral

THIS was the year the selfie landed in Hollywood. Ellen DeGeneres's photograph during the Oscars ceremony - with a line-up of stars including Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Kevin Spacey,

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - went straight on to Twitter and promptly went viral.

By 6am the image had been retweeted more than two million times.

It broke a record set by President Barack Obama with the picture of him hugging Michelle Obama after his re-election in 2012. Twitter had to issue an apology because all of retweeting disrupted the service for more than 20 minutes.