Although Samsung was an Oscars sponsor, host Ellen DeGeneres was tweeting backstage from an iPhone, as seen at right.
Although Samsung was an Oscars sponsor, host Ellen DeGeneres was tweeting backstage from an iPhone, as seen at right.
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Ellen DeGeneres tweeted pics via phone from Oscars sponsor Samsung

But backstage, DeGeneres was also tweeting from an iPhone

CNN  — 

Ellen DeGeneres, #Busted.

The Academy Award host broke Twitter with her Oscar-night group selfie using a mobile phone built by Samsung, a major sponsor of Hollywood’s big night. It generated a record 2.7 million retweets – a coup for her, the Oscars telecast and the Korean electronics maker.

But some sharp-eyed observers noticed something a bit different when viewing the talk-show host’s backstage tweets. Several of them, such as a photo of DeGeneres with actor Channing Tatum, were sent not from a Samsung Galaxy handset but a rival iPhone.