"The Oscars of Twitter" — The 2nd Annual Shorty Awards Take Manhattan

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One of the most succinct descriptions of Twitter I’ve ever come across was from a mommy blogger who famously opined in April 2009:

“Twitter makes famous people normal and normal people famous.”

As I sat in the audience at this year’s 2nd Annual Shorty Awards at TheTimesCenter in the New York Times Tower (thanks Morris + King!), it dawned on me that her observation couldn’t have been more appropriate.

Twitterers both ‘normal’ and ‘famous’ sat side-by-side that night to celebrate the most innovative uses

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