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1st Shorty Awards
Awards show for short-form social web media content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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]
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The first annual winners by category:[8]
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