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The Social Media Prizes (SMP) CATEGORIES What are the Social Media Prizes? Blog SMP, which was organized by ITU MEC in 2010, was the first organization about social media in Turkey. In previous years, lots of mediums and famous people joined SMP, so it took a place in the Twitter Trend Topics List. Before the SMP, a lot of agents and internet users propose some candidates and social media experts consider their suggestions. Later, people vote for their candidates who are determined by social media experts. When the voting period comes to an end, winners are announced. In the finishing SIT night, the winners take their own prize. Social Media is becoming the most important source of information because lots of people easily retrieve information from it and its cost is very cheap. The people write, watch, listen and read whatever and whenever they want. Thus, the entire world uses it for everything. This year SMP has 12 categories and these categories are below. Name: Adamlar Yapıyor Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamlaryapiyor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/adamlaryapiyor?f ref=ts Web: http://www.adamlaryapiyor.com/ Adamlar Yapıyor has 9.579 tweets and 6.286 followers on Twitter and has 6.733 followers on Facebook. Name: Bal Köpüğü Twitter: https://twitter.com/balkopugublog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doityourse... Web: http://www.balkopugutasarim.com/ Bal Köpüğü has 8,559 tweets in Twitter, 8,308 followers on the blog, 323,830 followers on Facebook. bee writer ITU Writing Center Student Magazine 21