I for one am not a fan of the sudden influx of anime avatars.
I've realized how important avatars have become in my consumption of twitter feeds - I can instantly recognize a twitterer from their longtime avatar and it greatly speeds up how I parse through the string of posts, as well aids in visual searching for "that thing that that person twittered a few hours ago." When 15 people I follow decide to change their avatar at once, I'm suddenly left without that benefit.
Furthermore, when quickly skimming through all of these anime avatars, they pretty much look the same - it's not that easy to identify one colorful manga head from another, especially when said manga head only tenuously looks like the original Twitterer. The basic structure of each avatar is similar (round shape on the heavily-favored light blue background). Which again prevents quick scanning of the Twitter feed. At least for me anyways.
Bottom line, I hope the trend ends sooner rather than later. :/
LeonWestbrook
· 1 year ago
I think you are taking twitter a bit seriously. Its just for fun!
Ginger Kenney
· 1 year ago
Think I'll pass, the real life versions are much more interesting and attractive
It's fun -- don't know how long I'll keep it, but I get tired of my face staring at me all the time, and my graphic design skills aren't good enough to design anything else...
It was probably the only bandwagon I have jumped on in the year or so of twitterdom, just for the fun of it. I don't know how long it will last though as I miss my avatar. :)
I like these kind of harmless memes as the float about the interwebs. It says, "Hey, I'm not taking myself too seriously, now, am I?"
Also, I think there is a fascination with tinkering with our looks. Some people complain because the website doesn't let them reproduce themselves accurately. Others, like myself, experiment with different "personalities," creating one manga for normal, one for mad scientist, one for what I looked like as a kid, even a superhero one.
It gives me some insight into the feeling great masters must feel like when they paint self-portraits (Van Gogh, Picasso, Rembrandt, etc.)
I'm not a fan of this bandwagon. I agree with the dude who said is hard to distinguish when you scan over the small images quickly. Its like all things, its cool when a few do it but then everybody does it, it kinda loses the appeal.
Why are there so many twitter posts again recently? Are they paying you Pete? :0)
What a bunch of lemmings! Just cause Kevin Rose starts some silly viral campaign doesn't mean we all have to jump off the cliff together like mindless drones!
Hi, just wanted to let you know that users in Spain of Twitter were doing this around May. I have already taken off my avatar from Twitter since it is very confusing as they said when you have loads of people with the same type of avatars but you can see mine here in my blog where I posted about this craziness that was affecting everyone.
I was informed some time ago that my twitter avatar needed freshening up. This seemed like a good excuse to do so, without going to the bother of producing a photograph of myself that I liked.
Personally, I think the manga avatars are fun. I see nothing wrong with people trying to express themselves through self-generated manga... no different from photo snippets, anime characters, or all of us taking pictures of our pets and using them in our stead.
After spending far too much time trying to make this actually *look like me*...I present to you "The Shorter Haired Version of Popgloss"...it is the best I could muster. I realized when I was pondering hair shade and length for 15 minutes that I needed to just stop. Lol.
I tried out two different mangatars before finally switching back to my photo. It was fun while it lasted (less than 24 hours for me) but I missed the familiar faces that I was used to.
I tried to make a cartoon avatar, but he turned out looking too young, handsome and hip. Things I am not. There were no 40something , married with two kids looking avatars.
Wow. U are a tough person to catch. I'd even settle with just hanging around in the background just to report on the guy who's branded the wild wild west...to coin a phrase. Let me know in twitville @brucebski if U have a moment. Thanks.
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http://www.twitter.com/iJohn
I've realized how important avatars have become in my consumption of twitter feeds - I can instantly recognize a twitterer from their longtime avatar and it greatly speeds up how I parse through the string of posts, as well aids in visual searching for "that thing that that person twittered a few hours ago." When 15 people I follow decide to change their avatar at once, I'm suddenly left without that benefit.
Furthermore, when quickly skimming through all of these anime avatars, they pretty much look the same - it's not that easy to identify one colorful manga head from another, especially when said manga head only tenuously looks like the original Twitterer. The basic structure of each avatar is similar (round shape on the heavily-favored light blue background). Which again prevents quick scanning of the Twitter feed. At least for me anyways.
Bottom line, I hope the trend ends sooner rather than later. :/
www.twitter.com/cameronbanga
http://twitter.com/preshit
By the way, that jawline for Pete's avatar is pretty much spot on. I'm impressed. Not sure why, but I am!
http://twitter.com/julieFBT
It's fun -- don't know how long I'll keep it, but I get tired of my face staring at me all the time, and my graphic design skills aren't good enough to design anything else...
Look out for the official NewsCred launch next Tuesday!
I like them, and I'll use them, but I don't like the process of actually making them, so if someone else makes one of me, I will use and enjoy it.
http://www.twitter.com/krystyl
Check out my blog for other twitter users avatars!
http://blog.krystyl.net/2008/08/twitter-cartoon...
http://twitter.come/starrgazr
and mine is at www/twitter.com/pprlisa
http://twitter.com/jaredwsmith
http://twitter.com/benfeldman
http://twitter.com/lebaron
http://twitter.com/Jbot6000
Also, I think there is a fascination with tinkering with our looks. Some people complain because the website doesn't let them reproduce themselves accurately. Others, like myself, experiment with different "personalities," creating one manga for normal, one for mad scientist, one for what I looked like as a kid, even a superhero one.
It gives me some insight into the feeling great masters must feel like when they paint self-portraits (Van Gogh, Picasso, Rembrandt, etc.)
I'm writing a blog post right now about this fascination at: http://blog.themudflap.com
Doesn't really look like me but it's the best I could do...
Here's real life - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v493/divamdn/...
All good fun.
Why are there so many twitter posts again recently? Are they paying you Pete? :0)
Cheers,
Vinay
http://twitter.com/pegva
cute huh?
http://twitter.com/kfoxaz
^_^'
and i'll add mine to the list.
http://twitter.com/kimlovesstuff
http://twitter.com/WyldGade
http://twitter.com/Christyxcore
http://twitter.com/treo700
http://twitter.com/greysection
twitter.com/ciono
http://twitter.com/Adgenius
* bit strict, small & with big ears... but hell I can live with that ;)
Here's mine: http://www.twitter.com/andymunich
OK...whatever. Here's mine.
http://twitter.com/Paisano
p.s. http://IMVU.com and http://Meez.com do a better job than this manga.
http://tinyurl.com/5af6ms
That said, yeah, I've got one - no, I'm not using it. I'm a rebel. grr.
http://twitter.com/maka
http://twitter.com/misciel
My first instict was to resist the group think of it all but then I realized mine would be the most awesomest of them all!
who knew i'd look so cute animated? (~.^)
https://twitter.com/MissChicGeek
http://twitter.com/israelavila
http://twitter.com/angelmg
And, yes, it's the Facebook group:
http://tinyurl.com/59wfl4
Why not? It's fun!
Here's mine: www.twitter.com/bethdunn
http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=330960
Here's mine:
http://twitter.com/promethh
Side-by-side comparisons of my wife and I in real life versus our manga versions:
http://www.latheofdreams.com/?p=284
As they say, "it's all good." =)
http://www.twitter.com/spirit20
http://www.twitter.com/popgloss
http://twitter.com/silentgirl
Here's the two different images:
Image A:http://tinyurl.com/6zp95n
Image B: http://tinyurl.com/6z3dxe
Feel free to let me know (via twitter @hip_M0M which one you prefer, and why!)
http://twitter.com/wei_yang
This should be fun for about a week or so...
http://www.flickr.com/groups/859733@N23/
http://twitter.com/Nymo
Even changed my layout for it...
http://www.twitter.com/xyiko
http://twitter.com/supergirl
http://twitter.com/missmodular
http://twitter.com/Daranifer
http://twitter.com/yvesluther
http://www.twitter.com/mikeprasad
DeejayKnight on Twitter
http://thomsinger.blogspot.com/2008/08/my-carto...
http://www.twitter.com/owlbert
Enjoy, Barbara
Manga me: http://twitter.com/jennatar
http://twitter.com/tarasis
Oh, and here's my avatar http://urlzen.com/zk. You can read why I'm not going to use it above.
Cheers,
Dave
http://twitter.com/uwenna
http://twitter.com/CarlC
http://www.twitter.com/leonwestbrook
I like my avatar.
http://twitter.com/themanuel
http://www.twitter.com/karthiksetty
http://twitter.com/das3zehn
http://twitter.com/richjm
Going to make a new one with a http://current.com logo t-shirt :-D