What else is there to say about last night’s Shorty Awards — no really…what ELSE is there to say?! — except that the people who pulled it together deserve a big congratulations. Of course, if @MCHammer could see fit to don a pair of parachute pants and rap an award or two next year, we wouldn’t complain.

For those of you who prefer your award coverage in pixels instead of tweets the incomparable (and available!) Nick McGlynn‘s photos of the evening can be found here (he’s also responsible for the one above).

While we’re on the topic of Twitter, which we seem to be more and more these days, we thought it might be a good time to re-draw your attention to the Shorty Awards (particularly since it appears to be increasingly important to people on our Twitter feed). Here’s the deal: The Shorty Awards have set out to “honor the world’s top Twitterers.” Per the rules you can “nominate as many people for as many categories as you’d like until midnight December 31st.” After which the top five are picked and a final round ensues.

Sound like fun? To be sure, though you should be aware that the people involved are taking this rather seriously. Also, being smart and entertaining in 140 characters or less is actually not that easy, try it if you don’t believe us! In the meantime go vote here.