I'm a trailblazing techie with a geeky grin and reading obsession who is 38.63% interesting. What are you?
Because most Twitter users are narcissistic by nature—after all, why else be on Twitter?—it would be wise to suggest that many would love having an infographic made in their honour.
Enter Visual.ly, "the world's largest community for exploring, sharing, creating, and promoting data visualizations." If you haven't heard of them, they're a startup that debuted back in April. Still not fully open, Visual.ly does have one fun time kill available to web surfers currently. By typing in your (or anyone's) Twitter username, and filling out some very basic visuals (hair colour and style, etc.), Visual.ly generates a funky custom infographic.
The infographic isn't actually cutting edge in its design—in fact, it's fairly boring beyond the cute avatar—but it's fun, and visualizing data is always interesting. Data points covered include follower to following ratios, how many tweets one sees per day, how social one is, and things like "interestingness," "enthusiasm," and "chattiness" expressed as a percentage.
Myself, I'm a techie with a geeky grin who is a "Twitter trailblazer." I have a reading obsession and I'm 38.63% interesting. What are you?
You can also pit yourself against another Twitter user to create an infographic that visually compares stats.
You can check out myself pitted against Techvibes editor-in-chief Rob Lewis here.
"Soon," Visual.ly will be unveiling its data labs, allowing for the creation of more customized and more comprehensive infographics based on a wider range of data.