Comments on: Should You Use a Photo as your Twitter Picture?

By: Blaine Bullman

Blaine Bullman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:05:55 +0000

Personally I use a picture for all my social profiles. I chose to use a photo because I wanted to put a face next to me and my blog, I didn’t want a faceless blog. I find people are more open to people they see to be real and human.

Although I do see the creative and logo mindset of people and yes it is easier to craft something more unique and memorable than a photo but for me it’s about personal branding not branding my blog.

Interesting to think about though.

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By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:55:55 +0000

That would work, yep. And by all means, if you use 2 accounts, that sounds like a great plan to me.

But not everyone uses 2 Twitter accounts (Twice as much time on Twitter? ). I use just the one account, and merge it as both business and personal. I don’t think it would be possible to run a successful blog without some degree of personality slipping in there anyway, so it makes sense enough for bloggers at least to stick to 1 account I think.

By: John Wang

John Wang — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:15:57 +0000

I don’t see why you can’t do both. Have a personal Twitter account where you use your photo and have a Business Twitter account where you use your company logo. I think that’s a much better way and helps to make the line between work and life much clearer.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:31:00 +0000

Thanks for the reply. It’s good to hear back from someone whose actuall made the change from one to the other!

What you said about letting down a wall would probably ring true with me as well. There’s quite a bit about myself that I just don’t put online. There’s no real reason not to; it’s just that there’s no real reason *to* do it either.

But if being a bit more open worked so well for you, I suppose it’s at least worth trying. Never know how it might turn out….. hmmmm. Got some thinking to do it seems!

By: Alrady

Alrady — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:31:41 +0000

This is great blog. Thanks for bringing it up.

I submit articles on ehow and initially, I had just a MEEZE for both twitter and ehow. It was a cute avatar and after using it a few months, I was afraid to change it. For one thing what if the photo turned out to be a negative? I thought the avatar was easy to find in the walls of photo faces!. People seemed to like my avatar.

After I changed from cartoon meeze to face photo, there was a very positive reaction. I know for myself it is nice to “see” who I am talking to. I don’t know that it increased readership. It might have sparked in my self a little letting down a little of a wall for people, which allowed for more warmth in postings.

I do agree that there is a problem with the changes over time. But I guess that I will handle that as it happens.

There is also the positive aspect that you pf changes. For instance on twitter, Lynne Mosher inspired me to use a photo of me in a Santa hat for holidays. Not only did it spark up on twitter but it was well recieved on ehow forums! The best side effect was that it perked up my holiday spirit some!

Thanks for great topic. AND I think it is awesome that you do follows!

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By: Rendy

Rendy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:33:09 +0000

I do follow well designed logos as an avatars. I am still working on a good logo for my social movement : http://twitter.com/cureworlddream. For my personal account http://twitter.com/dreamreaper I will prefer something with character. One will a great smile does helps I guess.

By: Dragon Blogger

Dragon Blogger — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:30:47 +0000

I agree that a photo is more personal, I use a photo of myself for twitter, but a site logo for places like socialspark or forums.

By: Joann Sondy

Joann Sondy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:27:55 +0000

Honestly, does it really matter?!

Isn’t the beauty of social networking, well, networking? If someone wants to use a photo of him/her self, kids, dog, cat, a logo, icon or symbol — then let them.

I started out using my logo as an avatar and after being a voyeur and minimalist, I decided to jump in. Changed by avatar to a photo (recently done professionally by my hubby the photog in a studio setting) would better suit my reasons for participating — so I could network MYSELF / MY COMPANY / MY WORK.

I do like Adell Charles avatar and believe it to be a great solution and presentation.