Creating a unique social footprint is as critical these days as maintaining your credit score or keeping your criminal record clean.

A major element of your digital identity is your Twitter handle. And one way some people are setting themselves apart is by creating memorable Twitter usernames.

Here are 15 of my favorite creative Twitter handles.

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Twitter’s data visualization scientist Nicolas Belmonte wanted to display the billions of tweets ricocheting around the world at any given point in a more inventive way than has been done before.

We’ve seen Twitter maps, interactive 3D Twitter models, and Twitter photo browsers.

But how about a 3D topographical map of billions of tweets, visualized across cities around the entire world?

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Who better than a brand’s employees to spread the company’s message?

Social media software company Expion has just launched Social Advocator, a browser plug-in tool that empowers a company’s employees to interact with and amplify the company’s brand voice.

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British beer company Brew Dog has combined two of my favorite things in a glorious fusion fit for the digital age: #MashTag, a Twitter beer.

That is, it’s the very first alcoholic beverage inspired and created by users of social media.

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Twitter has once again teamed up with Vizify, launching #FollowMe, a video tool that enables users to instantly create an animated portrait of their Twitter profile.

Each shareable movie depicts that user’s top tweets, photos and followers, set to a soundtrack pulled from a 1-million-song-strong catalogue provided by partner Rumblefish.

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Love babies? Who doesn’t, really – except maybe cats (babies pull tails and compete with cats for Internet supremacy).

People are sharing their #EvanBabyAndMe pics on Twitter and we thought you’d want to be among the first to get in on the fun. You know, before it goes all Harlem Shake and everyone’s doing it – followed by The Today Show a week later.

Oh and there’s video of babies dancing here that you won’t want to miss! Perfect Friday entertainment.
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Oh, those University of Cambridge professors.

First, they perform live Twitter experiments, showing how the interconnectivity of hashtags in tweets is just like the human brain network.

Now, they’ve published research that taps into Twitter to study how the usage of one of the U.K.’s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing.

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Having a dynamic relationship with your home has become a realistic possibility, thanks to products like Nest, an intelligent thermostat that automatically adjusts the temperature in your house, and Twine, which adds Internet connectivity to devices.

San Franciscan Tom Coates has taken this Internet of Things interest one step further, with the Twitterization of his home.

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It’s the start of a long weekend here in the U.S., and you’re like us, you may be having a tough time concentrating as you go about your day tweeting and such.

Or you may be one of those easily distracted types who has trouble focusing regardless of the day.

If either case applies – and particularly if you work from home – we think we’ve found the answer to your problems. Well, someone else did, but we’re sharing it here.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have a garden that was visible (or not) based on the whim of folks tweeting about it? Possibly not, as Twitter trolls might kill it with ‘unkindness.’

But one optimistic group of folks, with an apparently less-jaded view of Twitter, have put their garden out there and have stunned IRL viewers with the results, bringing home the gold from the Chelsea Flower Show.

Its covering responded to live Twitter activity, changing how the garden appeared at any one time.

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