I know you will see any number of animated avatars on twitter profiles and your response may be favorable or negative.

I’m sorry to say that the days of being able to upload an animated avatar are over.

Twitter NO LONGER will allow animated avatars to be uploaded.  In fact they will not allow GIFs to be uploaded at all.

On January 29th, 2009 - an API engineer from Twitter posted this email on the Twitter API Google Group announcing Twitter’s plans to BAN Gif Images.

“Hi all,

I’m sorry for the late notice but I just got word from our User
Experience (UX) group that they are testing a change to stop accepting
GIF images for the avatar (profile_image) and profile wallpaper
(profile_background_image).  For every image we have to verify the
format and size, and then create the thumbnail version. GIF images
consistently fail at that and report ‘possibly too large’ because we
can’t tell what went wrong.
There is no plan to remove existing GIF images. You’ll still be
able to use JPEG (image/jpeg and image/jpg) and PNG (image/png)
images, but new GIF images will no longer be accepted. This code
should be ready within the next week, so if your code is automatically
dealing with images you may want to start disallowing GIFs. Again, I’m
sorry for the late notice on this … snuck up on me as well. ”

Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford

So, If you have an animated avatar, you can keep it - other than that you are out of luck!

Sorry!

PS:  If you have figured out a way to upload a GIF image in the form of an Animated Avatar, please let us know.

Gives a good explanation of how the Twitterverse works and how a tweet can become viral and influence a lot of your fellow twitterers.

Now with Qwitter you can catch your Twitter Qwitters.

That’s it! Qwitter checks your followers and notifies you as often as it can, depending on how many people are using it and how many followers they have.

Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message like this:

John Gruber (gruber) stopped following you on Twitter after you posted this tweet:

What’s the difference between Arial and Helvetica?

Send files to your friends, by simply dragging any file up to 10MB in size on to Tweetr. Tweetr will automatically upload your file and when it is done will provide a short url to send to your fellow Twits.

Tweetr also comes with a webcam feature that allows you to share your new outfit, piercing or the latest gadget. It’s easy to use! Just click on the webcam icon. There is a drop down box that helps you select your camera if you get a white box when you click on the icon.

Click on the picture to the left to immediately download Tweetr 3.4 or check them out at http://www.tweet-r.com/

How easy is it to do? Fairly simple.

Here are the steps:
1. Click on the link www.twitter.com/badges or type it into your browser window.
2. Login to your twitter account.
3. Select the type of badge you want to use - the Flash Version appears in the top right sidebar position.
4. You can choose your own badge color for the Flash Version and once it looks the way you want it to, then you just copy the text displayed in the window to your clipboard.
5.  Next you would go to your Wordpress Administration Dashboard, go to your Appearance Tab and then to Widgets.

6.  Add a Text Widget in the sidebar where you want the Twitter Badge to appear and paste the code that you copied to your clipboard into the Text Widget.  Save your changes and you are all done.

The HTML version appears in this post.  There are currently three versions in three sizes available.  The HTML versions are interactive (meaning your visitors can do things within the Twitter Badge - Try it for yourself.  You simply select which style you like, copy the HTML code to your clipboard and then paste into your post, or follow the directions given above to add to your sidebar.

Play around and have some fun.

Best Regards

Tom

Keep your Twitter stream ticking over with new tweets even when you’re not in front of your computer. Or, use it as your personal reminder system.

This new utility TweetLater, promises to be a very useful item. check it out at http://www.tweetlater.com

Also while you’re here, you might want to check out the free report called the twitter report. You can check it out here

Or click on the link in the sidebar.

Later

Tom

• Update your Twitter status from your Desktop
• URL shortening via rurl.org
• Double-click a status to message that user directly
• Twitter notifications
• View your Friends timeline or the Public timeline
• Clickable links from status messages
• Refreshes automatically or manually
• Set refresh time and notification transparency
• Support for international characters in status messages
• Browse to Twitter user page or personal websites
• Customize Twitteroo font size
• Set transparency for main Twitteroo window and notifications
• Optional sound notification when new tweets arrive
• Profile icon caching for faster Tweeting
• Bite-sized cookies made from real Twitter

Until Later

Tom

I won’t spoil it by telling you who it is.  You can just go to the link above and see for yourself.

They also allow you to search by Friends or Updates.

WOW!  The number one spot for updates is 87,911.  This must be some kind of a TwitterBot…..

I’m not really sure what good this information is, but it’s fun to look at…..at least one time.

Later…….

Tom

So, please bear with me as the site goes through a metamorphosis or ten while I try various themes.

I would love feedback………..if you see one you like, let me know

Tom