Kim Jaejoong takes #1 in the Celebrity Twitter Awards, Beating Justin Bieber for the 2nd Consecutive Year
JYJ member Kim Jaejoong has topped the list for the Celebrity section of the 4th Shorty Awards.
On the 23rd Kim Jaejoong topped the Celebrity section of the Shorty Awards, beating artists such as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez. This is the 2nd consecutive year that he has won this honor.
Winners of each category, including the celebrity section which Kim Jaejoong won, will be invited to the annual Shorty Awards Ceremony in New York City in March.
The Shorty Awards are divided into 26 various categories which include health, politics, music, celebrities, etc. and are given to the people or organizations that best represented those categories on twitter.
From the finalists on the Shorty Award website, the final winner will be determined by the Twitter Real Time Academy of Short Form Arts and Sciences. Each finalist considered is evaluated by the Academy.
The New York Times has reported on these awards, saying ?As the Oscars are to Hollywood and the Tony Awards are to Broadway, so are the Shorty Awards to Twitter?
Meanwhile Kim Jaejoong and the JYJ members are gearing up to prepare for their South American tour in Chile and Peru that will take place next month.
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[NEWS] 120228 JYJ?s Jaejoong wins Shorty Award for most popular celebrity 2 years in a row
JYJ?s Jaejoong was voted the most popular celebrity for the 2nd year in a row at the 4th Annual Shorty Awards, an awards event that honors top Twitter users in various categories.
Jaejoong was revealed to be the winner in the celebrity category when the voting results were announced on February 23rd. He surpassed the likes of Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez, to name a few, in order to grab the #1 spot. He also won the honor of being the #1 celebrity on Twitter last year as well.
Jaejoong, along with the respective winners from other categories, will be invited to the Shorty Awards Ceremony which will be held in New York in March. In keeping with the spirit of Twitter, the winners are expected to give an acceptance speech that is 140 characters or less. The Shorty Awards selects the top people and/or organizations on Twitter in 26 different categories, such as government, health, politics, music, celebrities, etc. The winners in each categories are nominees who received the most votes from the Shorty Awards homepage, Twitter users, and the members of The Real-Time Academy of Short Form Arts & Sciences.
The New York Times has stated that ?Hollywood has the Oscars, and Broadway has the Tonys. Now Twitter has the Shorty Awards.?
Meanwhile, Jaejoong is preparing for the JYJ tour in Chile and Peru, which is to be held next month.
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[NEWS] 120227 JYJ?s Jaejoong Twitter Exceeds 750,000
JYJ?s Kim Jaejoong twitter exceeded 750,000 followers. He was chosen once again as #1 under ?Shorty Awards? for second year in a row.
His followers are not only from Korea, but include Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, China and many different countries.
Since the group debuted in 2010 they have gathered a total of 1.9 Million followers all combined. Jaejoong is more active followed by Yoochun and Junsu with 574,899 and 555,098 followers respectively.
JYJ currently is preparing for their South America tour in Chile and Peru next month.
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