How To Customize Your Twitter Background

The 6th tab in Twitter account settings is design, and we encourage you to do exactly that! Customize your profile page with one of our 12 profile templates, or get creative with your profile by changing the colors of the background, text, links, sidebar, and sidebar border to create a custom profile of your own.

You can add background images large or small, and even tile an image if you'd like. Background images must be in PNG, GIF, or JPG format, smaller than 800k. To customize your design:

1. Log in
2. In top navigation bar, click Settings (or go to http://twitter.com/account/settings)
3. Click the last settings tab, Design
4. Select a template, change your text and background colors, or upload your background image
5. Save your changes

While there is no minimum size for your background image, the max is 800k, which will resize the maximum width to 2048. To start from scratch with the default background, select "Use the Twitter default style" and save your changes.

Twitter Background Tips

Twitter Background Tips

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