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Shorty Awards given for best Twitterers

March 4, 2010 · Filed Under Great Work Gallery 

The second annual “Shorty Awards” were announced Wednesday night honoring the best producers of “short real-time content” on Twitter. Winners included Haitian radio host Carel Pedre, who used Twitter to inform the world about the recent earthquake, and Janis Krum, the ferry passenger who uploaded a picture on Twitpic of the US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River in January 2009:

“There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.”

There's a plane in the Hudson


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  • The second annual Shorty Awards ceremony went down this week in New York City, honoring the community-nominated and voted on best of the best from Twitter.

    Awards were given in 26 official categories as well as a huge selection of crowdsourced community categories. The Twitter community was invited to contribute nominations beginning this January, with the intent of recognizing a user’s overall Twitter stream as opposed to particular tweets. Popularity determined a set of finalists in each category, which were then also reviewed by a panel of judges from the Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences.

    The winners, who gave 140-character acceptance speeches at Wednesday night’s ceremony, included Betty Draper (the popular fan-run account for the Mad Men character), Whole Foods in the brand category, Nathan Fillion in the celebrity category, and more.
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