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

Show Yourself - Transparency Builds Loyalty

In social media world, you are the brand. With Twitter, being one of the major players in social media, showing yourself on the profile page can be very effective way of strengthening your brand and community around your website.

Example: Todd Defren - Shift Communications @Tdefren



Example: Darren Rowse - ProBlogger @problogger

Download This PSD Twitter Background Template #1

This Twitter background was provided by Chad Engle. His backgrounds have gained a lot of attention from Twitter users, this was his response when asked how he design his Twitter backgrounds and get everything to look right. So, instead of telling everyone- He took a few minutes and made a twitter template. Inside of the template he made guides that match up with different resolutions.

Twitter aligns all backgrounds to the left.

Make note of this when designing your background. Also, you can put elements to the far right but be aware that some users will not see them depending on what monitor/resolution they are running. I included the “twitter container” (logo and space where your tweets are housed) it is actual size. So you can move it into different resolutions to keep in mind what other users will see.

File Type: PSD
Number in Set: 1
License Type: Creative Commons 3.0
Author: Chad Engle

Twitter Guide-Book

The Twitter Guide Book, a one-stop shop for getting up to speed with everything Twitter (), from managing your Twitter stream to promoting a business. Now, we’ve packaged up all of our best Twitter resources in a downloadable presentation so you can flip through all of the content in one place, and print and share it with your friends and colleagues.

Presented by Adobe Acrobat 9, sponsor of this year’s SlideShare “World’s Best Presentation Contest”, the Twitter Guide Book includes a special audio introduction from Mashable Founder and CEO Pete Cashmore, as well as five chapters:

1. Twitter 101: The Basics
2. Building Your Twitter Community
3. Managing Your Twitter Stream
4. Sharing on Twitter
5. Twitter for Business

Please note that Acrobat 9 or Adobe Reader 9 is required for viewing. You can download Adobe Reader for free here. We’ve included some screenshots of the Guide Book below. You can view and download Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book here.