Of 750,000 tweeted endorsements received by the Shorty Awards, Daniel Razon is one of the finalists in the Best Journalist category. The feat marks Razon’s second consecutive nomination as part of the big six vying for the best journalist honors in Twitter.

Razon, the only Filipino among the chosen six, will vie with Flavio Fachel (a Brazilian broadcast journalist), West Wing Report (an Independent White House journalist), William Bonner (also a Brazilian journalist), Jenni Hogan (a traffic anchor at KIRO 7 CBS) , and Who? What? Why? (an anonymous Fleet Street reporter).

With 515 valid Twitter votes, Razon was able to secure the No. 6 spot. During the pre-finals stage, Shorty Awards evaluated the number and validity of votes, such as making sure the Twitter account of voters are active prior to the competition. Reasons given by voters are also counted.

The journalist from the Philippines is an advocate of Kahit Isang Araw Lang (Just One Day), a cause that encourages people to spare at least a day to help others or impact change within oneself. Through UNTV where Razon is a CEO, he has pioneered numerous social services like free private education and mobile schools for remote villages. He also became instrumental in the founding of transient homes, mobile clinics, free commuter rides, and the like, which are all geared to helping the poor and marginalized.

Considered unconventional as a Twitter user, Razon’s tweets are a mixture of news, current events, scientific facts and observations about life’s many realities, composed as a poetic 140-character posts. He also composes messages filled with biblical wisdom, which evidently showed the influence of Bro. Eli’s preaching to him.

Shorty Awards announced the finalists from 30 categories last February 15, including international evangelist, Bro. Eli Soriano of the Ang Dating Daan television program and actress Angel Locsin in television and actress categories, respectively.

Incidentally, Razon is the nephew of Bro. Eli Soriano, the Presiding Minister to the Members Church of God International (MCGI).

Final entries were sent to the Real-Time Academy for Short Form Arts and Sciences for evaluation. According to the Shorty website, finalists’ tweets, voters’ tweets, and Shorty Interview answers will be carefully evaluated. Winners will be determined through the Academy’s combined judgment with the outcome of the popular vote.

Awarding is set on March 28, 2011 at the New York Times’ TimesCenter in New York City.

Now on its third year, Shorty Awards is a worldwide effort that aims to engage hundreds of thousands of Twitter users to identify the best people and organizations on Twitter, it said on its official website.