If I understand well, eightbit.me is a service to transform pictures, especially for use as avatars, into 8bit-style pictures.Looks like this service requires access to my Twitter. Are there equivalent services that does not require this?(Side question: Is it possible that these avatars are totally computer-generated? They seems to have a kind of artistic sense.)
Less intrusive equivalent of eightbit.me
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There doesn't appear to be any other service that provides this functionality.  You could just sign up and create your Avatar and then revoke the Application access in http://twitter.com/settings/connectionsYou can also create these types of images using PhotoShop - a simple Google search will provide you with lots of sites with tutorials on how to do this.According to this article on CrunchBase the images are created using pure CSS & HTML.Eightbit.me will be a service to help  people create 8-bit avatars. The first  idea was to use images with very few  selections and to use pure HTML / JS  to create the characters.Inspired by an 8-bitted Dribbble post  by UK artist and designer Harry  Harrison, San Francisco interactive  designers Addison Kowalski, Amadeus  Demarzi and Courtney Guertin took the  idea to the next level by 8 bit-ing  their Twitter avatars, which  inevitably went viral among the tech  set. Eightbit.me is the result.