The Golden Twits ? First UK Twitter Awards launched
Bid to find Tweets that are Ahead
A new award scheme, the first of it's kind in the UK, has been launched for users of Twitter ? the micro-blogging site many decry as a useless, waste of time.
Despite such sentiment the site has become a social media phenomenon ? from a standing start in 2007, it is expected to top 18m users by the end of this year.
And the fact that it can now support an award scheme is testimony to the fact that it is entering the media mainstream.
Within seconds of the awards being announced on Twitter, the event attracted dozens of entries into categories that includes Best Celebrity, Corporate and Bizarre Tweets.
Mindful of problems acceptance speeches at events such as the Oscars, organisers will insist that any winners must keep their acceptance speeches to 140 characters ? a rule which applies to Tweeting itself.
Judges for the event include leading new media figures such as:
? Syd Nadim ? Clock
? Peter Abraham ? Econsultancy
? Trevor Chambers - Start Creative
? Rowan Heasley - Naked Penguin Boy
? Mat Morrison - Porter Novelli
? Adam Sefton - Reading Room
? Sue Llewwllyn ? Many Hands Media
? Carl Hopkins, Channel 4?s Secret Millionaire and MD of Kloog
? Dave Trott ? CST Advertising
The entry deadline for The Golden Twits is October 22, enter at www.goldentwits.com and the ceremony will be held in London in November.
The organisation behind the Golden Twits is media and marketing magazine The Drum. In a 140 character statement its publisher Gordon Young said, ?The awards will recognise the fact that, despite the character limit, Twitter is being used by people in increasingly sophisticated ways.?
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