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by @kzone7

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

theKbuzz team attended the Shorty Awards last night at TheTimesCenter. You can catch the entire show on livestream, but here are the top 10 moments:

10. “Twitter Cops” – The  night kicked off with a comedic documentary about the misuse of Twitter. Although this video was intended to humor the audience, it also validated the prominence of Twitter in everyday life.

9. Othello In Less Than 140 Seconds – Shorty Award winner, Reduced Shakespeare, performed a rap rendition of Othello during a 140 second intermission.

8. Bonnie Smalley’s Acceptance Speech – @ComcastBonnie won the award for customer service and her customers had written her 140 character acceptance speech. Obviously, a well-deserved award. Congrats, Bonnie!

7. Unlocking The Shorty Badge – Attendees saw a special surprise when they checked in on foursquare last night at TheTimesCenter. There was a special badge for the event called the Shorty Badge. Very clever, shorties!

6. Grover’s Acceptance Speech – @SesameStreet won the award for brand (along with @WholeFoods) and Grover was there to accept on their behalf. He started listing 140 fictional characters like Superman and Pokemon in his acceptance speech. Obviously, he misunderstood, but we still love Grover.

5. Cory Booker’s Win – @CoryBooker won the Shorty for government. He was there to accept and is very deserving of this award. He really knows how to utilize Twitter to connect with the citizens of Newark and other government officials should follow his example.

4. William Shatner Reads @ShitMyDadSays – Twitter users love to read tweets from @ShitMyDadSays and William Shatner shared some his favorites.

3. Mark Z. Calls Suze Orman – @SuzeOrmanShow won the Shorty in finance. They showed a video clip from her show when Mark Z. called asking about a  purchase he was interested in making: $1.5 billion to buy Twitter.

2. The Llama Gets Kanyed – @DoWhatITellYou won the weird award, but David McDonald from the Ron & Fez Show beat Annie Scott to the mic. He pulled a Kanye and was finally escorted off of the stage after 2 long minutes.

1. Janis Krum’s New Theme Song – @JKrums (who was included in our “Top 10 Tweets of 2009″ post) won the award for Best Real-Time Photo for his Twit-pic of the Hudson River plane crash. This was no surprise, but the shocker was the song they played as he walked up to the stage to accept his Shorty: “I’m On A Boat” (uncensored).

You can view the list of winners from last night by clicking here. Who are some of your favorite Twitter users? Share by commenting here.