@iFollowEyes now following nearly 1,000 eyes on Twitter!

This started out one year ago as just a simple curious question: What would the Twitter “Following” grid look like if you only followed profiles with eyeball profile pictures?

One year latter and @iFollowEyes is following 962 eyes!

This was before Twitter Lists, so I had to create a new profile, @iFollowEyes. I then started following the eyeballs (or “Eyevatars”) when I happened to see them.

My friend Dave actually got me thinking about it when he started Twitter and loaded this photo as his profile:

Kinda creepy, huh? That’s actually his dog’s squeak toy. Turns out, a lot of other people had eyeballs for profile pictures, too.

After Twitter Lists launched, I found others who curated Twitter Eyeball profiles as well. I’ve followed the eyeball lists here when I see them.

Gotta admit, that grid of eyeball profile pictures turned out pretty nice. (Click on the image above for a bigger version.)

You can see all past and current updates about @iFollowEyes here.