Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper Create PSA to Protect Oscar-Night Twitter Record (Video)

“If you think I’m going to lose that record to some chicken nugget kid, you are out of your cluckin’ mind,” host says of Oscars selfie

Ellen DeGeneres is trying to protect her Twitter record and she has enlisted the help of Bradley Cooper to do so.

On Thursday’s episode of daytime talk show, DeGeneres called up a Mediaite headline that suggested her record for the most-retweeted tweet could be in jeopardy. 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson is only a few hundred thousand retweets away from claiming the title with a tweet asking the fast food chain Wendy’s for a year supply of free chicken nuggets.

DeGeneres’ celebrity-filled selfie from the Oscars currently holds the records with about 3.3 million retweets. Wilkerson’s tweet is not far behind at 2.9

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