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Image: Apelad's Pac Man Twitter avatar

Brandon Boyer at 4:04 pm Wed, Jun 30, 2010

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It's not the first or even the second time he's done a gaming themed take on the default twitter-bird, but it is the most interpretive and therefore kind of the best. Pac Man Twitter Avatar [Adam 'Apelad' Koford]

Remixing the default Twitter avatar

Just trying to live a wild, pure, simple life.

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theawesomerobot

The MST3K one wins so hard: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/4132348067/in/set-72157622662466829/
relawson

Call me crazy, but i’m not seeing the twitter bird “remix” at all.

The only thing in common is the whisp of… hair? at the top and the two additional ones on the right.

*** before submitting my comment I looked more closely at both and now see how the entire outline is based on the shape of the bird. silly me. :)
Fletcherism

I love his whole series of the Twitter Avatars but am partial to the Toy Story and MST3K ones =)