They are all the rage at the moment – Christmas Avatars with Santa hats, snowflakes or other Christmasy paraphernalia. Many Twitter users do it manually but if you’re Photoshop Challenged check out Twixenate – a Twitter Profile Picture Editor that even I can use!
It’s as simple as adding your Twitter Username, allowing Twixenate to grab your current Avatar and then adding the effect that you want to create.
Lets do one quickly for Mr Arrington (@techcrunch).
1. Type in his username
2. Select ‘Santa Hats’
3. Size and position the hat (I had to enlarge the hat for this one – just saying…)
4. I think he could do with a little extra Christmas Spirit – so lets add some snow flakes
5. Click ‘Save Changes’ – it takes you to a page where you need to enter your Twitter password in order for the image to be uploaded to become your actual Twitter Profile. Of course I don’t have access to this for Mike’s account… so you’ll have to imagine this going live 
6. Alternatively – if you don’t feel comfortable adding your password you can grab the image and upload it yourself.
Enjoy!
@bcarroll7
Darren, thank you for pointing this out! How fun! I am now ready for Christmas with this one.
You rock!
@Booklorn
Hmm, doesn’t seem to be working at the moment. Not loading avatars to work on.
@rechargelife
Not working here either the avatars will not load in either IE or Firefox? May be the serve is overloaded because of the last minute demand.
@sara6633
so THATS where people are getting the hats?!
Check out http://www.gingerbreadme.com too to make a Gingerbread lookalike avatar
@ElPirillo
You’ve gotta be kidding me! I like it, but think I’ve seen one too many santa hats on Twitter recently.
How about a sombrero?
@theTVaholic
I was wondering where all the Santa hats on Twitter profile pics were coming from.
@RJBailey
Thanks for the heads-up! ^_^ Just snowed my av.
@weemundo
Great project, i played with it day before yest.
P.s – Darren : Exactly similar post is in my blogger draft ( twixenate), and now you i have to delete it
@hectorhenry17
Good pots
@farrhad
Great tool!
Just tweaked my avatar, it looks great!!
Thanks for sharing
@Rahul: Chill Dude! I know how it feels