I love trying Twitter-mashups and creative ways of showing information and data through their pipes; I think it’s clever (although sometimes without much value).
Portwiture.com, which shows your status update via photos, is pretty neat as it mixes your tweet with keywords from Flickr. I tried it and I got the above picture.
Now, I’m not too thrilled about half-naked burly men showing up but my latest tweet had something to do about some female performer so I understand the results. What’s fascinating is that I realized many people, myself included, judge and critique someone (and someone’s character) on their latest update.
In other words, we see a snapshot of who they are and we lock it in as a definitive characterization of who they are. Obviously, this is wrong.
But, we do it all the time.
I find this disturbing, if at least for myself. I’d hope that no one ever feels like they “know” me after 1 tweet via Twitter. It takes time, just like any relationship, right?
Man, hit me right between the eyeballs today! You are right! I might not have a face to face relationship with someone on twitter…but its a relationship none the less! Which means it takes time and effort for both people to form a bond. And in all fairness it probably takes more time online.
yeah, probably.
in your case, there should be icecream and starbucks in those pictures?and some of those virtual game dudes…