DiCaprio’s Oscar Win Sets New Twitter Record

Leonardo DiCaprio can stand up and shout today that he’s the “King of Twitter!”

His win for Best Actor at Sunday night’s Academy Awards set a new record, with 440,000 tweets per minute, making it the most-tweeted minute of any Oscars telecast. It shattered the previous record of 255,000 tweets per minute, which was set in 2014 when Ellen Degeneres took that famous group selfie with a number of Hollywood stars.

Overall, Twitter says there were a little more than 24 million Oscar-related tweets over a 7 1/2-hour period before, during and after the ceremony, and those tweets resulted in 3.9 billion impressions across Twitter’s platform and the web.

Twitter total audience: 3.9B views of #Oscars Tweets on & off Twitter, based on 24.2m Tweets (inc .pre & post show) pic.twitter.com/rH1KLuTAR8 — Twitter Data (@TwitterData) February 29, 2016

That’s comparable, but a little less than the 27 million tweets and 4.3 billion impressions that Twitter self-reported after the Super Bowl earlier this month.