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Tidbit: Summize.com “reply” avatars

Summize.com (Twitter search engine, recently acquired by the real thing) has an ingenious way of marking up tweets that are replies to other users.

The avatar of the user is shown just a bit smaller, while the avatar of the person she’s replying to is also shown in front of it, in a smaller thumbnail.

It’s a great way of visually representing information that would otherwise rely on your mind and memory patterns to be decoded.

It does not work all the time, but hey, I’m not here to comment on the functionality, just the design.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 6:23 pm by Sugar and is filed under Critiques, Web Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Tidbit: Summize.com “reply” avatars”


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    saperduper says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Twhirl has the same feature as well.

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    Nikos Anagnostou says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Yes, twhirl has the same and I think they employed the concept long before summize.

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    Sugar says:
    August 7th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

    @saperduper, @nikan

    Oh well, kudos to Twhirl. That’s not the point of the post though.


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