It's official. No longer the domain of the digerati, the Twitter short messaging platform has woven itself into regular peoples' lives to help with practical matters -- getting in shape, picking stocks, raising funds for a Senate run or selling cruise ship tickets. For proof, one need look no further than Wednesday night's Shorty Awards, which honored the best Twitterers as determined by a popular vote.
A shortlist of six films is made by the UK's leading critics, film-school heads and festival directors from the foreign language films released in that year in the UK. The winner is selected by a panel of judges whose decision making process is screened as part of the award ceremony, screened live on BBC Four.