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?
austinklee says
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.
human3rror says
yeah, probably.
Jim says
in your case, there should be icecream and starbucks in those pictures?and some of those virtual game dudes…