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Twitter offers a handful of simple formatting options for customizing your profile page, and one of those is the option to use a custom background image. This article will show you how to design a Twitter background that looks great on all of the most common computer monitor resolutions, and therefore appeals to the broadest audience possible. While Twitter no longer allows you to select a theme color for your Twitter background, you can apply a dark background by enabling Night Mode. Changing your Twitter profile's header image will also change the background of the top of your Twitter profile.
It's easy to customize your profile by selecting unique profile and header images, adding a name, bio, location, birth date, and website. You can also choose a theme color, and pin a Tweet that other people will see when they visit your profile.
- Sign in to twitter.com or open your Twitter app (iOS or Android).
- Go to your profile.
- Click or tap the Edit profile button and you’ll be able to edit your:
- Header photo, also known as a “banner” (recommended dimensions are 1500x500 pixels)
- Profile photo (recommended dimensions are 400x400 pixels)
- Name
- Bio (maximum 160 characters)
- Location
- Website
- Birth date
- Click or tap into any of these areas and make your changes.
- When changing a profile or header photo, click or tap the camera icon and select Upload photo or Remove.
- You can choose to Show my Periscope profile through your Twitter profile (available if you’ve connected your Twitter account to your Periscope account).
- Click or tap Save.
Note: When you’re initially going through your profile set-up, you will not see the option to change your display name, until you have a profile and header photo uploaded.
More tips for updating your profile
- Choose your display color via twitter.com. From the sidebar menu, click on More, then click Display. From there, choose your desired font size, color, and background theme.
- Photos can be in any of the following formats: JPG, GIF, or PNG. (Twitter does not support animated GIFs for profile or header/banner images.)
- Check out this article if you’re having trouble uploading a photo.
- If your Periscope account is connected, your Twitter profile will show LIVE on #Periscope when you are broadcasting.
How to add your birth date and select who can view it on your profile
You can customize your Twitter profile by adding your birth date. You can control who on Twitter can see your birth date on your profile by using your birth date visibility settings.
- Sign in to twitter.com or open your iOS or Android app.
- Go to your profile and click or tap the Edit profile button.
- Click or tap the Birth date section.
- Select or change your birth Day, Month, and Year. Please note that your birth date lets Twitter know that you’re old enough to use our services and that the birth date entered must be of the person operating the account.
- You can also review and change your birth date visibility settings. You will see two visibility settings, one to control visibility for your birth date year and the other to control visibility for your birth date month and day. Click a visibility icon (web) or adjust Who sees this (iOS or Android app) to change your settings. Learn more about your profile visibility settings.
How do I remove my birth date from my profile?
You can remove your birth date from your profile by following the below steps:
- Sign into twitter.com or open your iOS or Android app.
- Go to your profile and click or tap the Edit profile button.
- Click the Birth date section.
- Change the values you selected in each of the birth date dropdown menus back to the default values (e.g., Day, Month, and Year) (web) or tap Remove birth date (iOS or Android app). To remove your birth date from your profile on the web, you will need to remove your information from all three of the birth date fields.
Pin a Tweet to your profile
You can pin a Tweet to your profile so that when others visit your profile, it is the first Tweet they will see.
- From your profile, find the Tweet you’d like to pin.
- Click or tap the icon located at the top of the Tweet.
- Select Pin to your profile.
- Click or tap Pin to confirm.
Unpin a Tweet from your profile
- Go to your profile page.
- From your pinned Tweet, click or tap the icon.
- Select Unpin from profile.
- Click or tap Unpin to confirm.
Note: You may notice that some of your Tweets’ fonts appear bigger than others. Tweets that have received more engagement will appear slightly larger, so your best content is easy to find.
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Since the early days of Twitter, users have had the ability to upload their own background images. From photos of cute kittens to jaw-dropping mosaics, the Twitter background has been a key medium for self-expression, personal branding, and personal fulfillment.
If you're new to Twitter, or just never took the time to create your own Twitter background, this HOW TO guide is for you. This guide goes step-by-step into the rationale for creating a personalized Twitter background, takes a look at some amazing Twitter designers, and provides a list of useful Twitter design tools and resources. Your artistic juices shall soon be flowing.
Why create a custom Twitter background?
Some of you might ask: is creating a custom Twitter background worth the effort? While this is a valid question, and the final answer is up to you, there are a range of benefits to making your backdrop your own. Both the creative and the brand-conscious can (and have) benefited from unique background designs.
Here are a couple reasons for why you might want to build your own:
1. Personalization and expression: It's a chance to express yourself and who you are. Are you an artist, a musician, a blogger, or a cook? Do you love Macs or the beach? A new backdrop can really help people understand who you are.
2. Contact info: It's an easy way to add additional information you can plug into your 160 character bio.
3. Personal branding: Having your contact information, your face, or additional bio information within your background is a common practice. It helps potential followers understand what you do and why you are someone people should follow. Check out HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on Twitter for more.
4. Artistic creativity: Twitter is a great opportunity to push the limits of your talents.
Some great examples of custom Twitter background designs
If you're looking for some inspiration for your Twitter background, look no further. These are some of the most unique, most inspiring, and best-branded Twitter backgrounds around. There's not enough time or room to showcase the thousands of great backgrounds that exist on Twitter, so be sure to check out somecomprehensivelists and discover some on your own.
And remember: you don't have to spend an obscene amount of time to make a great background. It's all about making a background that's perfect for you, not for anyone else.
Doug Cone (@nullvariable): Doug, a web designer and consultant, brilliantly integrates his face with his brand and contact information in this spacey theme.
CoolTweets (@cooltweets): CoolTweets, which collects, well, the coolest tweets on the web, gets an A for its simple and clean layout. Perfect for many brands.
Justine Ezeraik (@ijustine): The popular new media star has a balanced theme that perfectly reflects her brand.
Kristi Colvin (@kriscolvin): Kristi, a favorite tweeter of mine, opted to create a beautiful mosaic of color and life. I could stare at it all day.
Loic Le Meur (@loic): No, it's not that Loic's background is the most amazing, most complex, or most visually appealing image in the world. It's that his background reflects who he is - a smiling, personal, fun-loving guy...who also happened to found Seesmic. You just have to love the picture of him kitesurfing, too.
There are literally hundreds of great Twitter backgrounds. Part of the fun is discovering on your own.
Creating your own background: the basic requirements
Now that you understand the reasons for creating a background and you're feeling inspired, there are a couple of things you need to know about custom Twitter backgrounds.
First, you need to know how to actually change your background. This is a simple process: just go to settings, then design, and then click 'change background image.' You can now browse your computer and add any image you'd like, so long as it's under 800k in size.
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Next, the actual dimensions. This is important because improperly-sized images can be covered up by your Twitter profile or can start to tile, which often leads to an undesired effect. In most circumstances, you want your background to be large enough not to tile. To achieve this, the total image size should be around 1600px wide by 1200px tall. This encompasses almost all screen resolutions.
If you build a left-hand column, popular on many Twitter backgrounds, make sure that it's small enough not to be covered up by the central Twitter content - many designers suggest smaller than 200px or 235px. For more information on dimensions, check out Croncast and their numbers.
In the end, building your ideal background often requires trial-and-error. But if you're not a designer, that's not a problem - there are tools to help.
7 helpful Twitter background resources
What would a Twitter resource guide be without some useful Twitter apps? Not only do many of these tools provide pre-designed backgrounds, but many can also automatically update your background, provide detailed information and FAQs, and even fully-functional image editors. Here are a few of the best:
1. MyTweetSpace: MyTweetSpace is one of the simplest ways to create a Twitter background with minimal effort. It allows users to create badges, add graphics, play with text, and more to create elegant backgrounds and left-hand text columns. You can even log in with Twitter and MyTweetSpace will automatically update your background.
2. TwitterBacks: This website provides a set of templates perfect for creating your ideal Twitter background. The templates come in PSD (Photoshop) form. In fact, my Twitter account utilizes a TwitterBack template as the basis for my design. Can you guess which one?
3. TweetStyle: TweetStyle offers free background templates, custom Twitter backgrounds, and a few useful blog posts on the subject of the backdrop.
4. Free Twitter Designer: This handy little app provides an easy-to-use image editor to help you create a professional-looking theme.
5. TwitBacks: This is another tool for creating backgrounds. This one specializes in left-hand column-based backgrounds.
6. TwitterGallery: TwitterGallery is a directory of themes based on color and category. You can even click the 'install' button under any theme, log into Twitter, and poof!...your background is ready.
7. Peekr: If you stumble across a great Twitter background and want to take a quick look at it in its pure form, the Peekr bookmarklet is the way to go. Click on the bookmarklet once to show only the background, and press it again to bring everything back to normal.
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Start customizing and share your background
With this knowledge and these tools at your disposal, there is no reason you can't build a killer backdrop for your Twitter account within minutes. So what are you waiting for? Try out some different designs, and be sure to share your artistic flair with the rest of us by linking to your newly-designed Twitter account in the comments.
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