Tweet faux Pas?

How about using humor to dissipate the grimness of a situation?

Amusing, one would say and it elicits a little laugh.

But then, considering the seriousness of the riots happening in Egypt, it surely must become an embarrassed, nervous laugh.

What about you?

 

::image via Technolog

Tweet, tweet!

Hollywood has the Oscars. Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the... Shorty Awards -- The New York Times

It's the 3rd  Shorty Awards!

Even the micro-blogging website Twitter has an Oscars of sorts to honor the best people and organizations using Twitter and is still open for nominations until  February 11, 2011 !

 

Shorty Awards for the first time  will also honor the industry's best agencies and professionals in various social media like the best Twitter Campaign, Facebook Campaign, Twitter Brand Presence, Facebook Brand Presence, Viral Campaign. There are  various other categories  here .

To participate by voting, go to www.shortyawards.com and nominate Twitter users for excellence over the past year

Get news  and updates on the Shorty Awards by becoming a fan on Facebook, and following @shortyawards on Twitter.

 

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Twitter's I suppose you are familiar with url shortener, a very useful tool in maximizing that 140-character tweet.

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A tweet is a tweet is a tweet but what are you supposed NOT to tweet?

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...and so on to Twitter Hop Thursday, hosted by Simply Stacie, The King's Court IV, Little Yaya's, Kelly's Lucky You and Dear Crissy.

and check out Twitterer of the Week

@whyrustalkingme

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Have a great day!