NIT Twitterpop: manga avatar gang

Funderburk	ChristyFrink	morganlevy	jwd2a
joshrholloway	studionashvegas	danknight	davedelaney ?
kaijuu	jimdye	deantrippe	dzinerchic
dgirardier	PaduanBenedick	stevestclair	tmgstudio
iambillpower	writer_mom_tn	paige661	boomrocker

So, I log in to the Twitter machine this morning and noticed some of the regular, local faces I had come to know had changed, morphed into a gang of cartoon avatars. Close to 20 of them, to be exact. Look at them - all smug and ... cartoony. Not a pimple to be seen.

Can I dress my manga with the latest fashion? Do they have old people mangas? Do they really have my hair style? So many questions.

Who else would have known what was going on but Nashville's own Dave Delaney? You'll want to go read reason #2.

Everyone is changing their avatars on Twitter because they are suffering from what Mashable is calling manga kerrazy, and it’s driving me nuts. FaceYourManga is a free service that allows you to simply create your own cartoon version of your face. While it’s a fun little service, it’s annoying me for two reasons.

1. During my presentation on branding with Twitter I mentioned finding your avatar and keeping it the same. When I look at my Twitter timeline I recognize the faces before I do the names. Imagine your friends changed faces every day, it would get confusing wouldn’t it? The same reason is why brands don’t change their logos very often. When was the last time Nike changed the swoosh?