I found this story on my morning troll through the news sites: CNN’s story about the first ever Twitter Shorty Awards, hosted by Rick Sanchez (one of my favorite anchors through the pre-US-Election coverage, @ricksanchezcnn).

1st Annual Shorty Awards

The awards honored ‘short and sweet’ tweets that had a significant impact on events and issues. Award winners, selected from 50,000 public nominations, voted on by tweets included Justin Hart for politics, Wendy Leidhecker for business, Phil Pearlman for finance, MC Milker for green, and Charles Trippy for humour. A full list of nominees is available at the CNN Web Site.

The Shorty Awards web site gives all the info, including links to all of the actual winning tweets. Here’s to 2010!