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[GASP] Okay, I'll explain this in a video later this
week, but I didn't want to miss this chance to talk about The Oscars, in particular one
specific event that happened.
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Hi there, I'm Roberto. Hope you guys are doing well.
Last night The Oscars happened, and I did not watch them.
I mean, why would I? That's what Twitter is for.
For the most part, everything seems to have happened as expected.
Gravity won an Oscar for best visual effects. Frozen won best animated film.
Twelve Years a Slave won best movie. Oh, and Leonardo DiCaprio is still without
an Oscar. Again, just as expected.
Oscarless Leonardo is already a meme. Those are a few of the highlights.
And yet, there was one particular event that caught my attention, and I guess that goes
to show the kind of a geek I am. Ellen DeGeneres was taking selfies with a
Samsung Galaxy S5 and it was for a promotional stunt to get the most retweeted selfie ever.
I mean, we are no strangers to Samsung spending lots of money on these big events to draw
attention to their products. But the interesting development in this story
is that as Gizmodo later pointed out, Ellen was backstage tweeting selfies from her iPhone.
Okay, let me be clear here. The fact that she was using an iPhone is not
the main cause of the problem. She could've been using a Nokia Lumia or heck,
even a Nexus 5 and it would still be a problem. It's that she was using a phone from a competing
brand from the one she was supposed to promote. Yeah, imagine if Pepsi asked you to do some
promotional work for them at an event, and you are there doing your thing, drinking Pepsi.
But then you go backstage and people catch you drinking Coca Cola.
That's the thing. Look Ellen, I like you.
I think you're really cool and you have good comedic timing.
But you really need tech people advising you in these types of gigs, and I'll be happy
to offer you my services. In fact, let's go over what went wrong last
night and how to avoid it in the future. People keep forgetting that many third-party
Twitter apps still display what kind of app or device users are tweeting from.
And that's how people found out Ellen was tweeting from her iPhone backstage.
Even if you don't see this information because you're using the official Twitter app, and
Twitter has decided to hide this information from their website and their app, people using
third-party apps can still see what device you are tweeting from.
So here's a lesson all of us can learn: If you're ever asked to promote a device for
a particular company at an event, and that company is a competitor of the one whose device
you normally use, leave your own device at home; don't take those chances.
And just in case, Samsung, if you guys ever ask me to promote one of your devices at an
event, you won't have to worry about me tweeting backstage from my BlackBerry.
Selfie! [OLD CAMERA FLASH SOUND]
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