Customize Your Twitter Background

Have you started using Twitter regularly yet? Well a lot of people are already using this network for different things such as their business and personal needs. Upon signing up for an account you will be given a generic background at first.

What many newer Twitter users do not realize, is this background can be easily changed into anything that you desire. You can choose to add some cool colors to your background or have your company’s logo showcased on your page. Changing the background on your Twitter account is actually relatively easy and only involves a few minor steps to accomplish the task.

You are going to need to access your Twitter settings first. The settings option can be located inside your account and should be on the right hand corner of the page. After you have entered into the settings page, you will then see the option that says design.

From the design page you will be given the choice to choose the theme that you would like displayed on your Twitter account. There are a lot of different themes and backgrounds that are available to you to choose from – making your Twitter account bear some of your personality features is not difficult to do.

If the backgrounds that Twitter has available on their site are not your cup of tea you can upload your own background at your leisure. Uploading your personalized background is a fairly simple task to complete and many Twitter Background websites offer this as part of a free service.

You basically scroll down to the home page of your Twitter account and press on the design button that is located below the Twitter themes. You will then need to click on the icon for changing the background on your page. Once you are on this page, you will then be able to upload whatever picture you have chosen to be your new Twitter background.

There’s also an additional link that gives you the option to change colors on the picture that you previously uploaded to your Twitter account. You can peruse through multitudes of colors until you find one that catches your attention.

However, be aware that not all of the colors that are given to you to choose from will be available if you upload your own background onto your Twitter page.

There are many different reasons why someone would be interested in changing their Twitter backgrounds. Part of the reason why someone would think about changing their background is to give their page some style and make it look original in comparison to the generic background that everyone is given for their pages.

4 Responses to “Customize Your Twitter Background”

1. Michael Duvall says:

   February 11, 2010 at 10:50 am

   Thank you Maia, I appreciate the post.

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2. uberVU - social comments says:

   February 11, 2010 at 11:04 am

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3. Jennifer says:

   February 11, 2010 at 6:50 pm

   Thank you for taking the time to post a few lines on this. I always enjoy passing this on to others just starting in the twitter land.

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   • Michael Duvall says:

     February 12, 2010 at 9:06 pm

     Thank you, that sounds great.

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