Changing your twitter background

May 10th, 2009 Posted by Missie at 9:14 am

Customising and making your twitter account your own is the first thing most people do. It’s important to stand out from the crowd and make a real impression.

Twitter offers users a generic background, but in addition, twitter offers 12 stock backgrounds along with preset colours to change elements on your twitter page. You can use these to modify the overall background, text, links, sidebar background and sidebar border.

 

Switching backgrounds and changing the colour palette of your Twitter page is easy to do.

1. Select “Settings” in the top row of links on your Twitter page,
2. Click on the “Design” tab
3. Then either select a “theme” or click on “Change background image” or “Change design colours” and get creative.
4. Once you have chosen your image, click ’save’.

If you’re not happy with the colours or the background, don’t worry. Any changes you make to your settings won’t be visible to anyone until you click save.

4 Responses to “Changing your twitter background”

1. Sarah
   8:41 pm on May 18th, 2009

   I couldn’t find this information anywhere on the web! Thaks for the post, it was very helpful…

2. RobbyDesigns
   3:49 am on July 1st, 2009

   Maybe this isnt the right place to post this but I figure some people coming to view this page mught be interested in How To Change Your Background On ‘Twitter’
   1. Go to your Twitter account and choose ‘Settings - Design - Change background image’.

   2. Now upload your background image.

   3. Click ‘Save Changes’.

   4. Click ‘Home’.

   Troubleshooting
   Sometimes Twitter gives unusual errors including ‘Was it an animated gif’; if this happens, go back to Step1.

   Sometimes your image seems to just not want to upload; hold ‘CTRL’ and push ‘F5′ to see an un-cached version of your page. If your new background does not appear then go back to Step1. It is advisable to leave it for a few hours - this error seems to happen most at busy times. Another method that works when Twitter is being stubborn is to follow step1 but then choose one of Twitter’s own background images and click save; this seems to ‘clear’ the error allowing you to follow the steps and get success.

   How To Change Your ‘Twitter’ Design Colours
   Besides changing the background image of your Twitter account you can also match your image with colours (Settings - Design - Change design colours). See the ‘design-colours’ box on your right for the design colours suggested for this file.

   Troubleshooting
   Never use a white (#ffffff) or almost-white font as it will ‘hide’ your Tweets - it may look pretty on your sidebar but Twitter will inherit it as the navigation and Tweet colours.

3. Missie
   7:09 pm on July 1st, 2009

   Hi Robby,
   Thanks for the wonderful in depth post about changing twitter background. It’s great to read the troubleshooting part, something that’s a real benefit to twitter newbies. Often when new tweeple start off, it can become overwhelming and even the smallest setting changes such as a profile pic and background design can be terrifying. So this information is a truly valued resource.

   Thank you for taking the time to share this information, it’s great to see other sharing the passion and love for twitter.
   Missie | Tweeterland

4. busy do Niemiec
   5:55 pm on July 24th, 2010

   I stumbled across your site, and think it’s fantastic, keep us posting

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