It was the tweet heard round the web. The selfie Ellen DeGeneres took during the Oscars became an internet sensation. First, it garnered the most retweets ever: as I write, Twitter reports 3.3m users have recommended it in this way. The previous record holder, President Barack Obama, had managed only 780,000 retweets, for a photograph celebrating his reelection on 7 November 2012. Continue reading
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The limits of celebrity power and the rise of selfie-nomics in one tweet
Filed under Business, Economics, Human nature, Innovation, Technology
Three reads for Christmas: Glamour, Cicero’s web and high-tech fiction
I wrote at the end of November that the rise of the selfie marked the death of the audience and the rise of an age committed to universal self-expression and performance. This week, even world leaders have been joining in. Continue reading
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