I saw the “Twitter Mosaic” on renagerie.com, who tipped the hat to libragirl. Evidently, this tool creates a bunch of HTML code you can stick in your blog that creates a mosaic of your followers.
So, I did that, and here are my comments / questions so far:
- I thought it would give me a simple graphic to host on my blog, but it actually generates a bunch of links and image tags that go to Amazon’s system. That means that when you go to a blog with a twitter mosaic, it’s actually pulling images from Amazon’s S3 service. That’s both weird and cool – weird that I need to depend on an outside system to be working for my blog to function; and cool because it reduces the load from my server.
- I couldn’t find out the logic behind the order – is it using the number of @replies? Does it count how many tweets that person does? Is it taking into account any “favorites”? Is it anything but random? Maybe it’s the order in which you followed people or the other way around…
- Evidently you can make the mosaic from followers or friends, so I guess you can rate your level of narcisism.
- This reminded me, but only a little, of the wordles I made from all my tweets. I feel like doing that again for some reason, but for some other reason I won’t.
Without further ado, here’s my twitter mosaic:
This was fun!
