Shorty Awards for Twitter writers: Votings open
By Partho, Gaea News NetworkFriday, January 8, 2010
Voting for second annual Shorty Awards is on. The best writer on Twitter would be awarded with honored with the award this March in New York. With an ever-increasing popularity Twitter is now a hub for seasoned writers with the flair to keep it short and attractive - the key skills for microbloging. For many it hard to believe that Twitter is helping people in their writing careers. Twitter has loads of quality writers and some popular ones like @skinnyjeans (Stephanie Quilao), @problogger (Darren Rowse), @daivrawks (Daiv Russell) given the celebs. The current leaders competing for Shorty Awards are quiet surprising.
Winner of the Shorty Awards would be chosen by popular vote and opinion of the members of the Real-Time Academy of shortform arts and sciences, comprising people from food and customer service, celebrities and humour, and government and politics.
Are you willing to vote for your favorite Twitter writer? If you have someone tweeting interesting, informative, or entertaining content, you can nominate the Twitter writer via the service itself by inserting the relevant hash tags and username. Alternatively you can visit the website and vote there. To vote for the Shorty Awards what you need is a active public Twitter account. What’s more, you can freely campaign for your favorite Twitter user to ensure that there is fair public pleas for votes appearing when you log into service over the next few weeks.
Currently the hot favorites in Shorty Awards comprise Nathan Fillion, the Canadian actor, with actress Stana Katic in the toppers. In the apps category TweetDeck, TweetYouThere, and AggreTweet are on the top. It’s high-time you vote for the best Twitter writer who deserves the Shorty Awards and uphold Twitter Democracy.
