Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar winning moment tweeted 440000 times per minute

The Academy sent the whole world in a tizzy after they released their list of nominations for the 88th Academy Awards, which saw Leonardo DiCapiro as one of the nominees for the Best Actor category for 'The Revenant.' And it looked like the whole world came together to pray and cheer for the actor's big win. From tweets and memes to games and petitions, a lot was done to ensure that Leo, who has been nominated on five separate occasions earlier as well, finally takes home the trophy.And take home the trophy he did!
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To the utter relief of his fans and supporters, the actor finally bagged the coveted award on Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre, LA, where the Oscar ceremony was held. What followed next was only to be expected. Leo's winning moment has now become the most tweeted Oscar moment ever with 4,40,000 tweets per minute, according to Twitter data.
Prior to this, the record was held by Ellen Degeneres' starry selfie at the 2014 Oscars, which was tweeted 2,55,000 times on Twitter.
Guess it is safe to say that Leo finally managed to break the internet.
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