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1st Shorty Awards

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The 1st Annual Shorty Awards

Date

February 11, 2009

Location

Galapagos Art Space, New York City

Hosted by

Rick Sanchez

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The first Shorty Awards ceremony was held on February 11, 2009, at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn, New York. Approximately 300 people attended the event.^[1] The event was hosted by CNN anchor Rick Sanchez and featured appearances by prominent Twitter users MC Hammer and Gary Vaynerchuk and a video appearance by Shaquille O'Neal.^[2]^[3] The awards, in 26 categories, were voted on by Twitter users.^[4]^[5]

History

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The Shorty Awards were created in 2008 by tech entrepreneurs Greg Galant, Adam Varga, and Lee Semel of Sawhorse Media.^[4]^[6] They invited Twitter account holders to nominate the best Twitter users in general categories such as humor, news, food, and design.^[7] Winners were chosen by more than 30,000 Twitter users during the voting period.^[4] The founders of Twitter first heard about the awards after the contest had gotten underway and expressed support for it.^[4]

Winners

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The first annual winners by category:^[8]

Category	Winner
Best in Advertising	Peggy Olson, @PeggyOlson
Best in Apps	brightkit, @brightkit
Best Brand	Action Wipes, @MarthaVan
Best in Business	Paw Luxury, @PawLuxury
Best in Design	Yiying Lu, @yiyinglu
Best in Education	RubyLearning, @RubyLearning
Best in Entertainment	Flashlight Worthy Books, @FLWBooks
Best in Finance	StockTwits, @StockTwits
Best in Food	Foodimentary, @foodimentary
Best in Green	green jaden @greenjaden on twitter
Best in Health	Debra Wendler, @ADHDParenting
Best in Humor	Charles Trippy, @charlestrippy
Best in Music	Hunter Burgan, @tranquilmammoth
Best in News	BNO News, @BreakingNewsOn
Best in Nonprofits	Athletes for a Cure, @athletes4acure
Best Personal	Arleen Boyd, @AlohaArleen
Best in Photography	Kyle Reese, @Twipphoto
Best in Politics	Justin Hart, @justin_hart
Best in Science	NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, @MarsPhoenix
Best in Social Media	Dan Zarrella, @danzarrella
Best in Sports	Jackie, @girlwithnoname
Best in Startups	Hanniversary, @hanniversary
Best in Tech	Twitter Tips, @Twitter_Tips
Best in Travel	Cruise Source, @cruisesource
Best in Video Games	Justin McElroy, @justinmcelroy
Best in Weird	Martin Sargent, @martinsargent

References

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^ Otterman, Sharon: "The Scene at the Shorty Twitter Awards: Chatter", The New York Times
^ Vilensky, Mike: "The Media Is Twittering Away Its Short Time on Earth" Archived 2012-10-21 at the Wayback Machine, New York Magazine
^ Capistrano, Daniela: "MC Hammer, AFI's Hunter Burgan Celebrate Twitter Mania At Shorty Awards" Archived 2015-04-04 at the Wayback Machine, MTV News
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Holmes, Elizabeth: "Surviving the Drama of the Twitter Awards", The Wall Street Journal
^ Turnquist, Kristi: "Portland's Carri Bugbee plays Peggy Olson of 'Mad Men' on Twitter", The Oregonian
^ Neisser, Drew: "How the Shorty Awards Became the Oscars of Social Media", Fast Company
^ Stone, Brad: "From the Twittersphere: Trophies for the Best Tweets", The New York Times Bits Blog
^ "The 2008 Shorty Awards Winners and Finalists". The Shorty Awards. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12.

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