Fun stuff from the labs at @visually — why not make your own (it's free)?! Or, feel free to follow me @ptamaro 'cause I tweet good tweets :)
The Twitter Visualizer generates a personalized infographic of your Twitter persona based on what you tweet. See how you compare to celebrities ranging from Web gurus like Guy Kawasaki and Kevin Rose to Hollywood’s digerati such as Snoop Dogg, Lady Gaga, Ashton Kutcher and dozens of other celebs...
Try it Out
This includes tweets from 1,790 friends, who collectively have around 5,880,338 tweets.
To print, it would cover
274,415
A4 pages
That would use 5.5 litres of ink!
That's nearly 457 ink cartridges!
That would cost about £8,004 ($13,007)
Using a single inkjet printer to print all that would take about
7 days, 12 hours, and 43 minutes
During that time, around 2,828,868 babies are born worldwide!
Enter creative contests at Veer, win $50,000 in prizes
Starting today, Veer is giving away $50,000 in prizes to winners of daily and weekly creative contests. Why? Because they like you that much.
Monday through Thursday, you can enter daily contests announced on their Twitter account VeerUpdate. Fridays, you can enter week-long contests announced on The Skinny.
Every daily and weekly contest will have 5 winners (chosen by Veer’s creative team) who will receive one-month subscriptions to Veer Marketplace worth US$199 each. Each subscription gives you 60 credits per week, for 4 weeks, to spend on images.
That's $1000 in prizes every weekday, for almost two months!
Then, on October 30th, they'll post a final contest, for a grand prize package worth $8000:
How hard you play in the daily, weekly, and grand prize contests is up to you. Knowing how talented our audience is, competition should be fierce and fun!
- Apple® 17" MacBook Pro
- Adobe® Creative Suite® 4
- 1,000 Veer Marketplace credits
- Jukebox type collection (122 fonts)
- Type Tray laptop cushion
- Kern Zip-up
Visit the contest page for more information, rules, and regulations.
I'm testing the beta of Mixero as I type this, and this app really delivers on it's promise of "reducing the noise." The interface is really nicely done and there are only a few things that a little less than intuitive but fairly easy to figure out as you use it. It's got a really nice feature set [see the list on http://mixero.com] that helps make your time spent on Twitter much more productive. Follow them at => http://twitter.com/mixero to get the scoop on their latest activities (hint: Facebook integration sounds cool) and bugfixes.
It feels different than other Twitter clients I've used -- feels more streamlined and the interaction is more directed towards productivity as opposed to "stream following" like other clients. I'm still not a huge fan of apps built on Adobe Air because this machine is old and just doesn't have the horsepower necessary to really handle "power-browsing" while running an Air app and a handful of others simultaneously (you can never have enough RAM). Because it's an Air app, it should work on any OS, and as I mentioned the look and feel is definitely silky.
As social media continues to converge and inter-operate -- it's getting increasingly more difficult to stay on top of it all. Although I've only been testing it a short while, I can see that it's definitely going to be an important tool in my social media tool chest.
