SANDY COHEN
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.
The film organization has expanded its digital outreach for the 85th Academy Awards with a new feature that lets stars to snap photos of themselves backstage during Sunday’s ceremony and instantly post them online.
What Twitter calls a “Magic Mirror” will take photo-booth-style pictures of participating stars in the green room and send them out on the academy’s official Twitter account. Organizers expect multiple celebrity mash-ups.
The backstage green room is a private place for stars to hang out before taking the stage and is typically closed to press and photographers.