I am usually too stubborn to use any free services for image editing so let me explain how I did it in about 2 minutes using Photoshop.  If you have access to Photoshop, try it out yourself it’s not too hard.

First off, pick out a photo of yourself that you want to use…for me, I chose this one for this DIY:

Next, you will want to “rotate” the picture about 45 degrees, so you can make a diamond cut out of it.  (Since the picture is upright, I need to rotate it about 45 degrees and make a box cut first.)

1) Go to Edit->Transform->Rotate.

2) Rotate your picture about 45 degrees like this:

3) Then select this tool, which is basically ellipse selecting tool:

4) After you make a nice rounded-corner box, right-click and select “Make Selection”.

5) Once you make the selection, you will want to cut it, so go to Edit->Cut.

6) After cutting your face, go to File->New to open a new window to paste to.

7) Make the Width and Height about twice bigger than default.  (My default was 200×200 so I made the new window 400×400 pixels so I can rotate my face.)

After you make the new window, simply paste by going to Edit->Paste.

9) You will get something like this:

10) Using the same methods as in Step 1 and 2, rotate your picture so you get a diamond.

11) Now, find you layer window, right-click on the face layer, then select “Blending Options”.

12) Select “Drop Shadow” and press OK.  (You can also mess around with the values a bit if you want to.

13) You should get something like this now:

14) We need to get rid of extra whitespaces so go to Image->Trim and press OK.

15) Yey, you are done!  Save as a Jpeg, Gif, PNG, or your favorite type of image file and upload to Twitter.

Now your profile picture will definitely stand out since everyone else uses squares while you are a diamond in haystacks!

Now, go re-tweet my tweet on this cool hack plz!

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This would be very useful for tracking which hashtags Twitters have been using the most in the last month or so.

You can also subscribe to your favorite hashtag trends via RSS, another cool feature for tracking your online brand.

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Monitter is another really cool Twitter Trend tracking tool that lets you only track a specified location such as 10 miles within San Francisco.

I find this very helpful in finding other new Twitters that might live close to me.

For example, if I am a local plumber, I might want to utilize this tool to network with all the plumbers within 25 mile range of San Francisco.

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I guess it’s acceptable to automate direct messages but sometimes you really need to filter out the good Twitters from pure spammers.

Here’s a couple great tips I found over at Twittercism on how to deal with there Twitter spammers:

1. Report any suspicious spam activity to @spam.  @spam is Twitter’s spam handling department.

2. Block them, use that “Block” button to block the spammer, this will also send a “red flag” to the Twitter spam handling department.

There a couple more tips but I will let you simply head over to Twittercism to check them out if you must.

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