The real Shorty Awards Winner 2008
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Anyone on Twitter will be aware of the ShortyAwards. The Shorty Awards is an open competition to recognise the “Best producers of short content in 2008”. Any of the 4 million or so users of Twitter were asked to nominate people who contributed most to the Twitter universe during the year.
There were many categories, one of which was personal. An Irish man, John Williams, reached the final and fought a great campaign but was up against a Twitter user with 27,000 followers.
John has 870 followers and received 373 votes. His competitor (the one with all those thousands) received 484 votes.
Who do you think the real winner is?
The image above is a mosaic of avatars of a selection of those who voted for the Irishman who flew the flag, giving us all a lesson in setting a goal and going for it.
9 Comments
January 25th, 2009 at 12:35 am
We want John, we want John, We want John.
Fantastic image, how in the hell did you do that?
January 25th, 2009 at 3:13 am
That is a brilliant pic AJ. Yes, I do agree that McAWilliams really should have won – that fat fake cow shouldn’t even have been in that category…
January 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Cool picture! He got my vote! giftsandvoucher
January 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
WOW AJ thats cool many many thanks for your and everyones support throughout the campaign, if anything it was great fun for the last 2 days of voting.
I am hoping that @shortyawards may see the feelings that so many people I have spoken to. Who knows maybe they will have some sense in the matter!
January 25th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
cool pic, and well done mcawilliams
January 25th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Billiant! I spy a fair few twitterers there! So when does the campaign for next year start Mcawilliams?!
January 25th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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January 25th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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January 26th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Thanks for the feedback all !