Changing the default background that comes with your Twitter account is a good idea for a few reasons. Firstly, it shows that you are a real user and not one of many automated bots that have become prevalent on Twitter recently. Secondly, it helps you stand out from the rest of the crowd that only use the basic backgrounds and also makes your account more easily recognisable to return followers.
Below we detail a beginners guide to show what options are available to customize your Twitter background and how easy it is to implement.
Basic Background Themes
Once logged into Twitter and on your account homepage, simply click on the ‘Settings’ link on the top navigation bar. This will take you to your account settings and the ‘Design’ link needs to be clicked in the above menu.
The design page will show a list of the 20 pre-arranged backgrounds available from Twitter themselves. You can click on all of them to see a preview of what the themes look like. If you are happy with one of them and want to use it, simply click on the ‘save changes’ button at the bottom of the page. If none of them are appealing, click the ‘cancel’ button instead.
Adding Your Own Background Image
To insert one o your own photos, graphics or images to use as your Twitter background is very simple. Ensure that you are on the ‘design’ page still and click on the ‘Change background image’ link near the bottom of the screen. This will bring up a search box just underneath the button. Click in the search box and then find the image file that you would like to use by navigating in the pop up window. Once found click on ‘Open’ in the current window and then click the ‘Save changes’ button at the bottom of the Twitter page. This will then add the image as your Twitter background. Underneath the small preview image shown in the Twitter page there is also the option to ‘tile’ the image. This simply means that the image will be tiled o repeated in the image size across the background of your Twitter profile. Click the tick box to see how it comes out. Don’t forget to save any changes with the ‘Save changes’ button.
Note – some images do not view very well on Twitter due to the size of the image. If yours does not view appropriately, simply use image software such as Photoshop to increase the image size.
Customized Twitter Colors
Click on the ‘Change design colours’ link near the bottom of the page; here it is possible to customize the look of your Twitter profile even further. The 5 coloured boxes at the bottom of page, if clicked on, can be used to alter the colour of the
background, the text, links, sidebar and sidebar border. When happy with the colour scheme click the ‘Save changes’ button, otherwise select ‘Cancel’.
That I all there is to it. Have fun customizing your Twitter page.
