We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming today in order to honor (and attend) the Second Annual Shorty Awards! The awards ceremony will honor the best represented personalities and social media elites on Twitter, and all winners will give their acceptance speeches in 140 characters or less. Please join us virtually (or vicariously) by going to the official site to watch the streaming video of the ceremony, beginning at 7:30pm EST tonight. You can also follow the @ShortyAwards on Twitter and Facebook.
For more background on the ceremony, please revisit Rocky’s post on the nominees! Join us later in the week for all of the insider details too hot for other social media news sites (we may even name names and provide photographic evidence of debauchery…).
Stay tuned!
It’s Survival of the Twittest as Twitter’s 2nd Annual Shorty Awards is fully underway. The Shorty Awards honors Twitter users who have mastered the short-form art with their 140-characters (or less) tweets. Based on their body of work in the last year, these short content producers will be recognized for their work in 27 “Official Categories”. A popular vote by the Twitter community as well as the expert panel, The Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences, will determine the finalists and eventually the winners. In March, The Shorty Awards Ceremony will commence in New York, where winners will give acceptance speeches, of course keeping it short and tweet!
Some of the 27 ”Official Categories” include Government, Health, Advertising, Art, and Humor. But as the Twitter community also has been given the option to create new categories for their most beloved Tweeters, we might see some additional awards. Depending on how popular these community-inspired categories become, they may cross over to become an “official category”. Here’s hoping that “Bacon” becomes the 28th category.
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