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Tech universe prepares to honor top Twitterers

 The aptly named Shorty Awards are honoring the bards of Twitter blasts.

The micro-blogging social network device that connects people through 140-character posts — or Tweets, as they’re called — has become all the rage for technophiles, including basketball superstar Shaq­uille O’Neal, who wanted to attend the awards ceremony on Feb. 11 at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space, but has a game. Instead, he will be appear via video, said event organizer Greg Galant, who likened Shaq’s (THE_REAL_SHAQ) Tweets to Yogi Berra-isms.

(A recent Shaq posting: “Never celebrate until the task is complete, almost aint good enuff.”)

Other influential Twitterers, including MC Hammer, will be there to celebrate the short form. It has a noble history, Galant pointed out: “Headlines in newspapers have been, for the most part, under 140 characters.”

Category: More than 30,000 Twitterers nominated their favorite “writers” and 20,000 cast votes for the finalists. Here’s a sampling from the 26 winners, who were selected not so much for any one particular Tweet, but for their “beat” of general posts:
Humor charlestrippy: “listening to Buddy Holly ... i’m going to be upset if you guys reply and say you don’t know who that is ... and no it’s not the Weezer song”
Weird
 martinsargent: “Think I’ll go to yoga. I kick ass at yoga. Nobody in that class can touch me. They’re all terrible. Physically and spiritually, I win.”
Ad
 PeggyOlson: “Is the super bowl a Tupperware product? I think Ma bought one of those when Anita had a party. She uses it for jello salad.”
Food
 foodimentary: “Crisco, introduced in 1911, was the first solid hydrogenated vegetable shortening. During WWI became popular due to lard shortages.”
Brand
 MarthaVan: “My worst baby story is when I saved wine in a recycled juice bottle. My mom didn’t know n gave some to my son. Still feel guilty!”
Health
 HDHDParent: “Tell OLD-fashioned pharmacist in Houston you want oil of peppermint 4 heartburn. Mix w cold buttermilk. Was ONLY thing worked.”