New service Twitter Poster from Spanish company Come and Click Networks provides a mashup of Twitter profile pictures that are sized relative to the influence of each Twitter user, based on the number of followers and the number of Tweets popular users make.
Influence posters are available for the United States, Japan, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Canada, France and Taiwan, in addition to a global poster on the front page.
It’s a pretty mashup, but the usefulness of it isn’t clear. I’ve already seen folks on Twitter talking about why some people have bigger profile pictures than others, and how they can change this, so it might have the potential of becoming a Technorati-style top list for Twitter users, but aside from this its just nice eye candy.
(thanks to Dave The Rooster for the tip)
uhm bigger pictures is because they have more people following them
see scoble, and ijustine for examples.
it doesn’t really provide much value except to see all the pictures.
Looks like one of those facebook apps that show all your friends ..
“a pretty mashup” … not really. This is just another twist on tag-clouds, this time with even less usefulness.
this is a cool idea.
The allure is to find a pic of a person who intrigues you, then click on it.
Whether we like to admit it or not, we DO judge strangers by their faces. And the face does give an insight to the personality - sometimes.
Even if it is not their face - the pic represents how they want the world to see them.
It will be interesting to see how many new acquaintances one can make by having an compelling photo of comely face.
“uhm bigger pictures is because they have more people following them see scoble, and ijustine for examples.”
This comment made me chuckle — at least Scoble will respond to you.
“a pretty mashup” … not really. This is just another twist on tag-clouds, this time with even less usefulness.”
Same web, different day.
It’s kind of like a popularity contest. Who has the most twitter followers, which really if you follow the wrong person, you just end up with piles of nothing - 20 piles of nothing in a row.
Rex
“piles of nothing” - best comment today.
having more followers does not equate to anything.
I usually get annoyed when people say this, but in this case I’m saying it: Why is this on tech crunch?
You can get a very simple Facebook picture collage of your friends by going to this link:
http://stanford.facebook.com/friends.php?grid
Ego booster — that’s what it is. Like #8 said, big following doesn’t really mean much. Someone today said in twitter that the quality of the following has more value than the amount of following — i tend to agree fully.
The idea seems completely useless. As you said though, it does make a pretty picture. Plus, I can’t image why the blue bird and half a head are so popular. Although I do like the kool-aid man.
I guess it can turn into a fun game of “where’s Waldo?”, where you can substiture Waldo for the person of your choice.
You think that is pretty?
sheesh
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
>> It’s a pretty mashup, but the usefulness of it isn’t clear
ijustine (stop)
It’s a good ideal and some funny.
I liked it but probably just because I’m on it. My guess is that people who are on it like it and people who aren’t on it… well.
I actually found this to be a relatively insightful graphical representation of the world of twitter. Surprised that it only took about 315 followers to be one of the most “influential” twitterers. It would be interesting to know what percentage of twitter users are following this group and how many you would need to represent 80% o twitter users.
For me, it shows just how few people in Australia use Twitter. The last five contacts on the poster as I look at it now have *no* followers. I appear about a third of the way up, and I’m a fairly new user with only 14 followers. Though I suspect they’re only showing people who’ve twittered (tweeted?) fairly recently.
Cool idea! Big pics for many news!?!
To summarize Duncan’s fine posts:
1. Here’s a Microsoft Zune ad that is trippy, but doesn’t work.
2. Here’s a Twitter poster that has no value.
Good journalism, Duncan.
As fonzie said yesterday, you’ve jumped the shark.
You’re easily on minute number 30 of your 15 minutes of fame. Time to step down.
Social movements have always existed in History of Earth.
http://tekno-world.blogspot.com
@8 “having more followers does not equate to anything.”
Seems to me it might be a metric for size of audience and like RSS subscribers it comes down to how many of those followers who are actually listening.
I’m hoping this “15-pixels-of-fame”-wave expires pretty clickin’ soon. Can’t wait for people to resume living offline… using the Internet to stimulate, not validate.
“Seems to me it might be a metric for size of audience and like RSS subscribers it comes down to how many of those followers who are actually listening.”
I use twitter to keep in touch with real friends via SMS — but with Facebook Mobile adding a lot of SMS features, not sure how much longer I will be using it.
Big twitter profile picture, nice to measure user influence.
Whoops, they forgot me!
http://twitter.com/fakedave
bestuff.com did this over a year ago.
I’m on there!
http://twitter.com/adamjackson
Hello everybody, I am Alfonso Borondo of Comenclick Networks, the company behind twitterposter. I just wanted to say that the only secret to appear in local versions of the USA, Australia or anyone, is that the user Twitter has specified the country from which he writes.
The purpose of the project is simply that you see, do something fun and visual record of the relevance of the people who publishes in twitter.
Greetings to all
Alfonso Borondo
WRONG… check out my article, “Quick Free Tip on How to Get Followers on Twitter Fast!”, it specifically mentions a use for TwitterPoster on how newcomers can get targeted followers quickly. Please mention me as thinking outside the box. In fact, you might be able to use me around here.