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Don't Tell Ashton - Million Dollar Homepage done Twitter-style (donttellashton.com)
6 points by prawn on May 13, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Jeez, just render a static image instead of making everyone download thousands of individual images!


I like this, not just for the cool effect, but for the clever name too. milliondollartwitter.com wouldn't have had the same chutzpah.


Except for the million dollars part.


Goes viral, gets loads of attention, decent potential to throw some ads on and at least make something (though not $1m). If it catches Ashton's interest enough that he tweets about it, you have a message going out to millions of people. Pretty inventive and yet another "wish I'd thought of that!"


Doesn't seem to be drawn to scale. For instance, @LevelTen_Colin's square (bottom left) is the same size as @snookca's square (bottom center), despite Colin having 7k followers compared to Snook's 15k.


Kind of neat, but the weird salute to Ashton at the end ruined it for me.


CPU hog warning please?


Sorry - it was my first submission, I knew I couldn't post a link and body text together and didn't think to submit a comment straight after (not sure of protocol on that).




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