Stephen Colbert last night was presented with the first-ever “Golden Tweet” award for his June 16 tweet on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico: “In honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles.'”
“It’s official, I won Twitter!” Colbert declared. “I have harpooned the Fail Whale! Tonight, we dine on Kutcher!”
Colbert’s post (embedded below) was the most re-tweeted tweet of 2010. And, to make it official, Colbert welcomed Twitter co-founder Biz Stone on the show to present the award.
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In his brief acceptance speech, Colbert said, “To all the others who lost out to me this year, and especially Kanye West, I just want to say, it has been an honor just to crush you.”
Watch (Colbert’s Twitter bit comes in around 2:00):
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See the tweet:
