Keith Shirley

Twitter Mosaic is one of those head smacking ideas that makes you think – why didn’t someone think of this before. Twitter is a messaging tool that allows you to broadcast short messages. It’s different than normal instant message tools as it’s less intrusive – people decide to “follow” your updates because they want to keep an eye on the things you have to say. Commoncraft have made a video about it – Twitter in Plain English.

Twiter Mosaic was developed by Sxoop Technologies and allows you to get a mosaic of who is following your updates on Twitter. In itself that’s a bit of fun but the clever bit is that they’ve linked up with Zazzle so that you can get the picture printed on a t-shirt, a bag or a mug. They also do cards but I’m not sure how good that would look. I’ve just ordered a t-shirt – hopefully I’ll get it in time for the Blog Awards next week. I currently have 245 followers which is enough to have a good mix. I can hardly imagine what Stephen Fry’s mosaic would look like – he has over 150,000 followers.

The picture below is my Twitter Mosaic – It’s updated live so will change depending on what pictures my followers are using.

I’d love to see the option to create a new photo based on the twitter followers – eg Take my profile photo as a basis and redraw it using the linked in photos.

Get your twitter mosaic here.

Tuesday Push is an effort to help promote Irish Tech ideas by writing a short review each week. I keep meaning to do one but the schedule generally does not allow me to. Even though I’m publishing this on Thursday – better late than never.

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