Highlights from the 2010 Shorty Awards

The 2010 Shorty Awards had some fun with Twitter community conventions on Wednesday night at TheTimesCenter in New York—highlights below include financial celebrity (and Shorty Award Winner) Suze Orman pressing a caller for why he would want to buy Twitter and the serious note that ended the evening, awarding the use of Twitter in Haiti:

What do you think should be rewarded and acknowledged in the Twitter community?

  • Meh.
  • Love it!

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