Changing Your Background On Twitter

When you first join Twitter, you’ll no doubt start experimenting with how your Twitter page looks. This is no bad thing as you should stand out from the crowd a bit on this score. If you keep the default background you won’t really look like you have an identity at all.

Twitter gives you the option of choosing between a dozen different background images. You can fiddle with the colours that make up your page as well. But there are a couple of much better options you have to think about.

The first one is to upload a picture of your own that you could use as a background. This is what I’ve done and it is relevant to what I generally tweet about too. Since I am a writer and I spend most of my working days attached to my computer keyboard (sometimes in the garden admittedly if I am working on my laptop), I used a picture of a keyboard as a close up. It worked really well – an unusual view of something everyday, you might say.

Think about something that could represent you in a similar way. What are you tweeting about? Are you promoting your business on Twitter? What could you use image wise that would give the right impression to the people who are following you?

Your second option is to have a look online for a background image you can use for free. There are plenty of websites that have created lots of free backgrounds for use on Twitter. And the bonus is that lots of them have designed these backgrounds to ‘wrap around’ the Twitter page, so to speak.

Your tweets appear in the middle of your Twitter home page. Your background appears around the edges of it. The best result therefore is for the background to be created with this in mind. Sometimes you’ll find you can enter some details to appear on these backgrounds, such as your website or blog address. These will then appear on your Twitter page, making it more attractive, more relevant to you and more promotional as well.

A good bet is to follow the first method for starters, just so you don’t have a basic Twitter background in place. You can then take some time to look for a better background elsewhere.

Don’t miss out on the importance of getting something else in place though. So many Twitter users now have a different and unique background in place that it will make your lack of one stand out even more. You’ll be glad you put the effort in to do something different – so why not start now?