The Shorty Awards are given every year (this is the second year, actually) for Twitter writers. Last night, author Arjun Basu won the official Literature category the Shorty Awards Ceremony in New York.

As our sibling blog reports, “PRNewser editor Joe Ciarallo covered the event, delivering a report about the festivities on the on the Morning Media Menu.”

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Also, some Twitterers who might be familiar to readers of this blog also got community-nominated awards, including international book news guru Jose Afonso Furtado, who won the Shorty Award for the Publishing category.

Read the full report on the Shorties from PRNewser here.

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