I felt that as I was now a serious member of the Twitterati (ie completely hooked and spending more time tweeting than I do talking to my wife) I should have some form of personalisation.
Difficult to know what to plump for though.
I thought of a pic of the kids but that seemed so Facebook. After all, the primary function of Twitter for myself is networking on the professional sphere.
So perhaps an image of the University of Gloucestershire where I am employed as a senior lecturer in online journalism? Mmmmm a bit too corporate perhaps, especially when you consider that all views expressed are my own and not representative of the uni (happy now, legal people?)
As I love the internet and most of my Tweets involve it then I should show that but then I needed some kind of image?
Something from War Games with Matthew Broderick or even Terminator came to mind but it seemed way to negative (man they were scared of computers in the 80s). But then this Charles Darwin quote came to me:
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
I always use it when explaining the print media's relationship with the internet as it exemplifies why some newspapers are struggling to survive as they failed to adapt to change when the wonderful opportunity called the internet came along.
So I found this wonderful picture:
It shows an image Darwin made from plant and animal life.
Stunning picture and it caught my eye immediately.
Makes me feel slightly pretentious but then you don't have to look people in the eye when you're on Twitter do you?
Mind you, I have opted for the tile design and I think it looks a bit busy and might annoy me quite soon.
That's the great thing about the internet - you don't like something then go back and improve it. It's a journey, not a destination.
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