How To Customize Your Twitter Background

I know you heard about twitter and its super marketing abilities. You know it’ll help you reach out to your target market and even help you make new connections. But as with everything else, first impressions count for a lot in this world!

First, some much needed inspiration & tips from Smashing Magazine.

Free wallpapers & other twitter backgrounds

1. Social Identities

2. Tweedy Got Back

3. TwitBacks

4. TweetXilla

5. Colour Lovers

6. TwitRounds

7. Twitr Backgrounds

8. Tartan Maker

9. Stripe Mania

10. Stripe Generator

11. Twitlay

12. Twit Background Images

13. Tweet Hawks

14. Free Twitter Skins

What size should you use for your custom twitter background?

Free backgrounds not doing it for you? You can create your own with a little more work using Pixlr, Photoshop or Free Twitter Designer. According to Mert Erkal, the best image sizes to use for designing or customizing your twitter background are:

Image width: 1255 pixels
Image height: 555 pixels
Left graphic width: 245 pixels
Right graphic width: 250 pixels

How to create a custom twitter background using Free Twitter Designer

So if you want to be taken seriously and increase your following, you need a customized twitter background. Londy and I created mine on Photoshop CS3 but I recently found a website that makes it easier than ever to create your own background. No graphic design skills required!

Free Twitter Designer is pretty self explanatory but a few instructions never hurt anybody:

1. On the front page, select the background color/theme of your choice.

2. Click “let’s get started.”

3. Use text and shapes to give your page dimension. Try to maintain the same colors and elements of   your own website in order to create continuity.

4. Add pictures of yourself and your products to give followers a better idea of who you are.

5. When you’re happy, click “generate image” and save the file on your computer.

6. Sign in to your Twitter account and click “settings” followed by “design.”

7. Finally, click on “change background image” and “browse” for your file.

8. Click on “save changes” and presto, you’ve got a customized twitter background!

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