How to Create a Twitter Background
With just about everyone having a Twitter account, it's time for you to make your Twitter page stand out from among the rest. Why settle for the default selection of backgrounds. Make your own to give your Twitter page your personal flair reflective of your personality.
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Create a Twitter account. If you haven't gotten around to signing up for Twitter yet, what are you waiting for? Go to twitter.com and sign up for an account. If you need a little more help, read How to Set Up a New Twitter Account in the resources below.
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Decide what type of image you want to portray. Part of the difficulty in setting the correct background is deciding what you want your Twitter page design to say about you. Many folks take any image or graphic and upload it to their Twitter account without much thought. Take some time to come up with something that speaks of your style, taste and personality.
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Consider the screen real estate. The important information to be viewed on Twitter occurs in the center of the page. No matter how many images or sayings you have on your background, the center of the screen belongs to Twitter. Therefore you have to create a background that gives Twitter center stage.
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Go large. Larger images and/or graphics reduce the necessity for tiling an image. It gives the appearance of one large background specifically made for Twitter. Try starting with an image as large as 1600 x 1200.
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Remember that all screen resolutions are not the same. The smaller the screen resolution, the lower the likelihood of your image will have to repeat. In other words, if you elect to use an image that has a flower located to the extreme left of the screen, on a lower resolution screen (800 x 600 for instance), the flower displays once. A screen with a resolution of say 2048 x 1536, the flower will display tiled on the screen several times.
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Think about using a border. When creating an image, remember that a small portion of the top of the screen is dedicated to the Twitter logo and user navigation. It's a little easier on the eyes if the design included a boarder over which the Twitter logo and navigation could sit without having to fight against a busy background.
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Upload your image to Twitter. Once you've played around with the image, upload it to Twitter to see how it looks. Log onto your account. Click "Design" found under the "Settings" tab. Once on the design screen click "change background image." Once you upload your image, check it out to see if you like it. If you don't you can change it or use one of the Twitter default images until you come up with something you like.
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Comments
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Anonymous
Sep 01, 2011
great article -
great article
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Before posting a How To article to the web you might want to always use SPELLCHECK in the paragraph about borders you also suggest putting a BOARDER above the image.
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gmarlowe
Mar 22, 2009
This really says nothing other than the bleeding obvious. In reality, there are numerous issues with creating a Twitter background that a) actually works technically and b) goes beyond being just a pretty pattern. The first thing to remember is whatever you create on your own computer will almost certainly look different when viewed on someone elses, either because of their screen size or the 'window' in which they are viewing Twitter. Therefore you need to be very careful that anything important about your background (whether that is text or graphic you created, or a photo you are using) so that it doesn't get obscured by Twitter's message panel which is fixed in size. If you are creating a background that contains text or a logo, for example, it's best to use only the left hand side of the screen and to keep that text or imagery quite narrow. The wider it is, the more likely it w
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Jerrie Dean
Nov 22, 2008
Thanks for this. I didn't know about it. I am going to head over their and give it a try.
