Ellen's Oscar Night Selfie Has Just Earned a Charity $3 Million

Money talks.

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It was the tweet seen around the world, or at least by 30 million people.

Samsung is now donating $3 million to the charity of Ellen DeGeneres' choice, thanks to her selfie on Oscar night with some of Hollywood's biggest stars. That selfie, taken with a new Samsung Galaxy S5, gave the company some welcomed promotion, especially after they dropped millions on sponsoring the event. Ellen's selfie gained more than 3 million retweets, and according to Twitter, it's been seen more than 32 million times.

The talk show host's tweet is now the most retweetedpost ever on Twitter, surpassing the last most retweeted post: Barack Obama's "Four more years" on election night 2012, which had 780,000 retweets.

Here is the breakdown of Ellen's tweet:

[via CNET]

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