Lifetime Shorty Award for Conan? Really?

Look, I’m a big supporter and fan of Conan. And I like Twitter and many of the people who earned Shorty Awards last night. I even thought the acceptance speech joke with Power Broker was pretty funny (see above).

…but giving Conan O’Brien a lifetime achievement award in the “Oscars of Twitter?” The guy has been really entertaining on Twitter, with his really well-written -by-him-and-his-staff comments that are published (scheduled) daily. The ability for him to write things that get retweeted are absolutely neat-o in this Twitterverse. That’s a lifetime achievement?

Please tell me there is a joke I’m missing somewhere.