100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars

At the size of 48×48, Twitter avatars definitely have more rooms for creativity compared to a 16×16 website favicon. Having a nicely designed Twitter avatar is fairly important, especially when it comes to profile branding and attracting new followers.

If a nice Twitter avatar is what you are looking for, we’d like to take a bit of your time to show you some of the really nice Twitter avatars we’ve come across before you start creating one. Here are 100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars from the twittersphere, ranging for cartoon and faces, icons, symbols and typography.

Cartoon and faces

Icons

Symbols and Typography

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@Rich83 May 13th, 2009

You should’ve linked these avatars to their respective twitter profiles!
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@Rich83 May 13th, 2009

Nevermind.. looks like they do indeed! Thanks!
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Stephen May 13th, 2009

Aw, ya left mine out!
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MotiveMedia May 13th, 2009

What about mine? I think my twitter avatar is more creative the most of these. See for your self.

twitter.com/motivemedia
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Danh ba web 2.0 May 13th, 2009

My avatar is logo of my blog.
Follow me: @banhaclong20
Share hot link: web 2.0, web-apps, tool online, resources
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fazai38 May 13th, 2009

Coolness… great collections of avatar.
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Grillo May 13th, 2009

@grillo … typographic …
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Ronaldo Bitenourt May 13th, 2009

Fantastic! :)
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Jason May 13th, 2009

I use my face on my personal account (@jasonpeltier) and typography on my design/dev blog (@mesmerlab).

Grats to Zeldman and Freelance Switch!
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Jason May 13th, 2009

Well firstly, create a gravatar. Easy branding wherever you go!
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Zeldman May 13th, 2009

Nice list, nice idea.

Mine doesn’t link to my Twitter account, however.

Can you fix?
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Bane Unreinen May 13th, 2009

Oh I see! You have plants but no zombies!?
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Kevin Makice May 13th, 2009

I’m glad there is a growing interest in the use and evaluation of profile pictures on Twitter. Pictures are not only a means of identification but may also predict the actions of others.

I am a researcher at Indiana University’s School of Informatics, and I’ve got a short survey investigating how individuals evaluate these kinds of Twitter profile pictures: “Use of Twitter Profile Pictures” (http://bit.ly/8iW1n)

It only takes about 5-10 minutes to complete. I’d greatly appreciate your time and participation. Thanks.
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Pablo May 13th, 2009

Aw man! you left mine out too! But these are brilliant, specially the icon set
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Christopher Francis O'Donnell May 13th, 2009

Hey, this is the first comment form in forever that I’ve filled out that reads “URI” instead of “URL.” I like that. However, I don’t think you’ve actually picked 100 “extremely creative” Twitter avatars, but that’s subjective. Don’t get me wrong, some are great. But some are bad. No names mentioned.

I still think that unless you’re running a company Twitter account, you should just use your face, or a picture of yourself. If you can get people to remember you face, well … they’ll recognize you in person, not just on the Web. If anyone on Twitter actually goes outside, that is. :-)
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Jan May 13th, 2009

Oh, thanks for including me once again, Walter :)
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Nick Larson May 13th, 2009

Some of the typography icons are very nicely done. However the cartoon and faces are so 2008. They’ve been way overdone in the past.
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michael lamb May 13th, 2009

check out http://twitter.com/SOML – theirs rocks (and their hottie dev @IHaveFleas – smoking!!!)
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Tonny Pettersson May 13th, 2009

Cool!!!

Thx a lot!

My avatar is my small social software company logo – branding global is very important – so hey my twitter profile is my company site today! :-)

nice party I am in… wow there are some cool avatars here!
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venkat May 13th, 2009

Those avatars really nice ,it’s time for creating avatar for my twitter profile.
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EnglishProfi May 13th, 2009

This is a pretty cool collection. Well done. What are missing are some of the motion avatars I have seen. Mine is just me: http://twitter.com/EnglishProfi
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Ami May 13th, 2009

Where’s mine? :( :(

http://www.twitter.com/ameliachen
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sunhuan May 13th, 2009

very cool collection. My avatar is my first name ,a Chinese word.
twitter.com/sunhuan
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Vim May 13th, 2009

Great collection of twitter avatars, how do these avatars work? seems like a lot of people are having trouble applying the avatars to there profiles.
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baloot May 13th, 2009

really cool avatar..
i love the SYMBOLS N TYPOGRAPHY.
thanks hongkiat!

cheers!
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Tschai May 13th, 2009

agreed, would have made more sense…

And about this post:
creative? maybe.
Extremely creative? really?
Nice collection, though.
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rebeldesigner May 13th, 2009

Where is mine……..

twitter.com/rebeldesigner
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Marc May 13th, 2009

Extremely creative?

Get real…
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Hans May 13th, 2009

Where is mine!?
http://www.twitter.com/designerscum

I never saw as many cool avatars as I now see on Twitter these days.
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blogger May 13th, 2009

cool stuff man. thanks.
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Paul Rostorp May 13th, 2009

great!

Follow me on twitter : http://twitter.com/paulrostorp

thanks,
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David Morgan May 13th, 2009

Mine’s better than most of these!

Check it out!

http://www.twitter.com/thisisdavid
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Oli4k May 13th, 2009

Check out http://cartoonme.com if you want a cartoon-avatar of yourself but don’t have the skills to draw one!
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Junix May 13th, 2009

I have been using this avatar for many many years that I created myself. An aimated ying yang.

enjoy! :)
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Success Wallpapers May 13th, 2009

I agree with the statement that you need something better than a 16×16 site favicon for a Twitter avatar. I ended up going back and took my website favicon, and actually redesigned it for a clearer version which would fit the 48×48 dimension for my twitter account.

You can see it here: http://twitter.com/successwalls
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Kasumi May 13th, 2009

I love the featured Twitter Avatars…very creative

Hope you get a chance to stop by and check out my Sexy SEO avatar
http://twitter.com/KasumiSEO
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miniclownz May 13th, 2009

I like the cartoon ones …there are some pretty interesting ones .. hmmm .. back to photoshop for me .. thx ♥
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sryo May 13th, 2009

Those avatars sure are pretty, but “extremely creative”? Only a bunch.
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AM May 13th, 2009

I wish I had those skills. If these people ever sell their accounts on assetize.com, I’d buy some just for their avatars!
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cadin May 13th, 2009

The first and largest mingle site for Cougars and men. == SugarMommyMatch.C om == Thousands of single members with real pictures are here waiting for you. Search for what you want, find more than you dreamed! Whether romantic or flirtation.
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Kookboy May 13th, 2009

sound good
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Maskus May 13th, 2009

Well those icons are nice, but i have a good one too

Http://www.twitter.com/maskus
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cars May 13th, 2009

looks good these twitterers. ahhh i might steal some of these and use it as my own wahahha
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Marc May 14th, 2009

I love this icon : http://twitter.com/Wisibility and the name is really cool, Web + visibility = WISIBILITY

It’s one of the french leader on Photoshop tutorials
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Dan May 14th, 2009

Sweet! I made the list! Sadbox ftw!
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Rommel May 14th, 2009

Yeah, that Wisibility avatar IS pretty cool.

Follow me: http://twitter.com/eyeondesigns

Rommel – @eyeondesigns
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Kolyan May 14th, 2009

You missed my extremely cool typography avatar.
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75bytes May 14th, 2009

huinya
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l1n0 May 14th, 2009

These are all very cool!

I’ve just created a new avatar…

Follow me: http://twitter.com/l1n0
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basibanget May 14th, 2009

hello everybody! :D
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XIII May 14th, 2009

Nice list indeed. :)
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M Bhatti May 14th, 2009

they look common… in Symbols and Typography you mentioned those who’s sites are famous…. specially smashingmagazine.com logo and avatar sucks
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anistock May 14th, 2009

nice images, just to make this relevant, one person contacted me on twitter, said he loved my twitter updates but asked why I was not using an avatar, seems like spammers use the standard templates on twitter
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DashTube1 May 14th, 2009

This has really given me some inspiration to develop a new one.

Just finished, please take a look.

http://twitter.com/1dashtube
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GUTO May 14th, 2009

Sou mais o MEU avatar, humpf!
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Allie May 15th, 2009

Awesome avatars! I love the typography ones
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adobe photoshop tutorial & graphic design May 15th, 2009

wow, really creative! i think u should add my icon too, hahaha http://twitter.com/abudzz
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hongkiat May 16th, 2009

Thanks for the feedback guys.

We took a lot of consideration and factor in a lot of stuff like pixel-perfectness, composition, colors, etc when we choose. There are easily hundreds of nice and creative avatars during our research stage and these 100 we’ve chosen has really stand out. That’s why we labeled them extremely creative.

@Zeldman Fixed.

@M Bhatti They do look common when we put the best ones together. SmashMag’s avatar is nice because it’s simple and catchy. In the end, nice avatar don’t have to have complex design, it just need to be simple, catchy and instantly reflect the brand. That’s what we thought :-)
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Oswaldo May 16th, 2009

Creative is to be difference with a little bit of original.

add my ico:

http://twitter.com/oswaldo2025
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Mephobox May 16th, 2009

Could add mine to Icons list.

Follow me at: http://www.twitter.com/mephobox
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shaz May 17th, 2009

Great set of twittercons its interesting to see how people and twttier are jelling for selfbranding and presentation purposes
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seobag May 17th, 2009

Nice icons list. I love the Cartoon and faces as you see :)
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David Costales May 17th, 2009

Great list :P
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Pensar Enlouquece May 17th, 2009

Muito legal este site, por isso: Siga-me os bons – http://www.twitter.com/pensarenlouquec
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bryanlyt May 18th, 2009

where’s mine lol? :P

http://twitter.com/bryanlyt
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Foomandoonian May 18th, 2009

Nice idea. I’ll have to start using a unique Twitter avatar.
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The Poker Jerk May 18th, 2009

Meh, mine is better than any of these
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SteelWolf May 18th, 2009

I’m quite partial to the typography ones.
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white_eagle May 18th, 2009

How ’bout mine? :P
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Leo Cabral May 18th, 2009

Amazing! Really nice ones.
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Martin Pallmann May 18th, 2009

Cool collection. You forgot mine, however :-P
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Albert Pak May 18th, 2009

Not a bad collection :)
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Rames May 19th, 2009

Trying my luck in the future, if got another list lol – http://twitter.com/ramesstudios
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Zubby May 19th, 2009

This is just some nonsence bit of publicity. Scratching the right peoples back I’d say? There’s much nicer twitter profiles out there. Half of these people are your box standard “celeb” designers.
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Alejandro May 19th, 2009

Since the last month twitter.com has increase it traffic over %60 this is huge its alexa rank is 48
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Redsan May 19th, 2009

Too bad for me :((
Sniffff

My twitter : @redsan
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Threefold Design May 19th, 2009

Thanks for including us in the list!
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Jan May 19th, 2009

Sorry I said Walter. Anyway, thanks a bunch for including me on this list! :)
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Stian Didriksen May 19th, 2009

I can’t believe how you could not add mine to the list over “Cartoons and Faces”.
I’m from norway and my avatar is a good drawing of my face and a huge viking helmet since I’m the only scandinavian on my team.
How much more creative can you possibly make it?!

Hehe, nerdrage aside, awesome list. Found a couple of new interesting people thanks to it :)
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Adi Nachum May 19th, 2009

My icon in my twitter is really nice too, you can take a look here: http://twitter.com/AdiNachum
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Maria May 20th, 2009

This is by far one of the best collection I have found on the net.
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Noah Lieske May 20th, 2009

Not bad. I Like your collection. Thanks for posting it. Noah Lieske
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Adi Nachum May 21st, 2009

Please post my twitter avatar too :) take a look @AdiNachum
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fenrique May 22nd, 2009

hey! mine is like the 16th face section

you can see this at http://www.twitter.com/fenrique
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netspark May 23rd, 2009

here is mine http://twitter.com/netspark
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eFG May 25th, 2009

Hi, take a look (our hand design cartoon-face avatar). Many people tell us it’s really nice: http://www.twitter.com/eFashionGuide
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Oliver May 26th, 2009

Sorry man, but you missed to submit my avatar to your list ;)

http://www.twitter.com/followolli

greetz olli
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Dnyanesh Mankar May 30th, 2009

You missed my avatar!

http://www.twitter.com/dnyaneshmankar
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Youssef Sarhan June 26th, 2009

Is a photo of your face really extremely creative? How extreme can ones creativity be when it comes to a twitter avatar.

And this is design? what a state we are in if that is the case.
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Daniel McClintock, Graphic Designer July 16th, 2009

I am using a “cartoon” version of myself that’s more than just the typical vector copy of a photo… http://www.twitter.com/LilDanny
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Kyle Tunney July 16th, 2009

Some really great avatars there, thanks for sharing!!
Kyle
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ROHIT CHANDNANI July 26th, 2009

super gooooooooodd.
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textsave July 26th, 2009

Here is mine: http://twitter.com/textsave
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tabiji July 27th, 2009

Boring!
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Dixon Garett July 29th, 2009

Thought I’d throw mine into the mix. http://www.twitter.com/dixongarett
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StickyMedia September 14th, 2009

The one you have there for @city_ninja is also the one for @ZenSeo by the way: http://twitter.com/ZenSeo

Oh and we think ours is pretty creative too ;)

http://www.twitter.com/sticky_media
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Feller October 2nd, 2009

Cool collection, just saved me time to look around :)
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plywood chennai November 5th, 2009

Extremely wonderful
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