2010 IS THE YEAR OF DOWNSIZING OUR WALLETS, WAISTS AND NOW OUR WORDS
THE WORLD IS STILL EMBRACING THE POWER OF PETITE MESSAGING
For the second time ever, The Shorty Awards Recognize Individuals with a Big Impact and Short Content
Special guests include: Rick Sanchez and Newark Mayor Corey Booker
Who: Greg Galant, Lee Semel and Adam Varga of Sawhorse Media developed the Shorty Awards to figure out who was the most influential twitterer on various topics and issues.
The Shorty Awards will be hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez (@ricksanchezcnn) and Newark Mayor, Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) will be making an in person appearance.
What: The winners of The Shorty Awards will be flown in from around the world to meet each other face to face for the first time, ever. In addition, over 50,000 public nominations and votes were cast as tweets by Twitter users to determine the 26 winners of the Shorty Awards. Winners will be determined by a combination of popular vote and by the members of the new Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Where: TheTimesCenter at The New York Times Tower
242 W 41st St
New York, NY 10018
When: Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM
Why: The Shorty Awards recognize those who make a big impact with short content on Twitter and for the first time ever the winners will get to meet the face behind the tweet. The Awards were launched on December 9, 2008 and within two months of the launch the awards became the premiere Twitter event