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The Twitting Point

Source: Mashable!

Aug 16, 2008

Summary

Twitter users are going manga kerrazy, replacing their avatars with those from FaceYourManga. If you’ve got a manga Twitter avatar you’d like to share, post a link to your Twitter account in the comments. Or, read on for further thoughts on this intriguing trend.

Twitter’s Manga Invasion

The above graph was extracted from a viral marketer’s wet dream. It shows the sudden, seemingly inexplicable rise of the terms “manga” (green line) and “faceyourmanga” (red line) on the social messaging service Twitter.

FaceYourManga, for those not familiar with this veritable Pet Rock of the Twittering classes, is a tool for creating your own manga avatar (my attempt sits atop this article, accompanied by a colorful array of carefully crafted toons).

The trip to social media domination was a short one: the buzz began on Thursday morning and peaked at 4pm Friday. But don’t go thinking this twend has Tweeted out: we simply don’t have today’s data yet. Meanwhile, traffic rankings (dare I say Alexa) indicate the buzz did indeed convert to heavy usage of the service.

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Comments (14)

Usability,

Aug 17, 2008

........... ok - but when will this system be effecitve for me ? Twitter has not given me a real user advantage for using it day by day - thought as a typical user ..... even if i pretty much like the idea ! and connecting it to other platform is pretty important for its growth but how making twitter to a usefull tool, a tool giving me a real life benefit? which is bigger than entertaining me ?

Chrispalle,

Aug 17, 2008

I jumped the bandwagon yesterday. http://twitter.com/chrispalle

Dawniemom,

Aug 17, 2008

I prefer the WeeWorld.com version of me: http://twitter.com/dawniemom

Orchid8,

Aug 17, 2008

please MAKE IT STOP.

Web2marketing,

Aug 17, 2008

this "trend" simply makes me sick! better stay with the original twitter o_O avatar!

Techn0tic,

Aug 17, 2008

It's all a bit of fun, Manga faces are just a fashion trend like snoods were in the eighties. I wasn't convinced at first but decided to join the fun later on: http://twitter.com/Techn0tic

Charlieanzman,

Aug 18, 2008

It was fun while it lasted but I miss my peeps!

April,

Aug 18, 2008

I hated it. Couldn't tell who anyone was. I'm glad most of my followees have gone back to their real photo avatars.

Richardk138,

Aug 18, 2008

I'm staying with my original avatar, I remember a person's real face better than I do a cartoon version of them. Although I must say some of you did do a really good job on making them look like you!

Christiananderson,

Aug 18, 2008

+1 April agreed. no changing pictures all the time (unless your picture is of one eye. what is with so many people doing that?

Purplepopple,

Aug 18, 2008

@Christiananderson The changing pictures is annoying because easier to ident people visually at times rather than by their names. Changing makes it harder to identify who is whom. Wish people would not do as often. (Or that twitter would allow people to have a couple of pics like LiveJournal allows.)