The Results Are In: The Shorty Awards  

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Who is the best tweeter? Twitter has developed a way of ranking Twitter members and has categorized the areas into over twenty topics. These awards are called the "Shorty Awards" and recognize those members who not only tweet the most, but also tweet the best. This requires members to be updating frequently and including information that keeps readers interested.

Members can nominate other members by leaving messages in certain formats. The initial rounds ended on December 31st, 2009. However, the top five Tweeters of each topic just recently completed the final round which ran from January 5th through the 14th. Winners are awarded a trip to New York City in late January where they can deliver acceptance speeches in 140 characters or less.

Click here to read about the Shorty Awards.

Click here to see the top 5 winners of each category.

1 comments

Courtney Anthony   says January 19, 2010 at 10:32 PM

I feel like this is a good way to promote Twitter and take online users and bring them together in NYC. That being said, it seems like its more of a popularity contest. Its like saying your facebook fan group will be awarded for having the most fans. I don't think its worth getting an award unless an individual or organization has a good cause. Of course celebrities will automatically be on some of those top five lists but all they have done is promote themselves and maybe other companies that pay them to tweet about their company (as discussed in a previous internet marketing blog).

And Twitter completely over looked the top 5 list because under "Journalist" there is one guy on their twice, under two Twitter names.

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