This was posted on Techncrunch the other day and has now made me very interested in Twitter again after initially thinking WTF about it. The only reason though is to get on the UK version of the Twitter Poster.

As stated below there doesn’t seem to be a lot of purpose to the Twitter Poster, and how people get ranked in different ways, but dammit I gotta get on there some how, just firstly I’ve got to understand exactly what Twitter is and how it works?!

New service Twitter Poster from Spanish company Come and Click Networks provides a mashup of Twitter profile pictures that are sized relative to the influence of each Twitter user, based on the number of followers and the number of Tweets popular users make.

Influence posters are available for the United States, Japan, Brazil, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Australia, Italy, Mexico, Canada, France and Taiwan, in addition to a global poster on the front page.

It’s a pretty mashup, but the usefulness of it isn’t clear. I’ve already seen folks on Twitter talking about why some people have bigger profile pictures than others, and how they can change this, so it might have the potential of becoming a Technorati-style top list for Twitter users, but aside from this its just nice eye candy.

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