Twitter is quickly becoming a hot spot for people and business of all kinds, including designers. Many designers now have twitter accounts so they can network with other designers on twitter and promote their work to a new audience. What I found interesting is, because of twitter a whole new niche of design has been created and that is Twitter backgrounds.
Because of the text limitations of Twitter people have quickly adapted and started using their Twitter backgrounds as a creative billboard. If designed correctly your Twitter background can include all sorts of important information about your business such as an extended bio, logo, contact information and so on. Plus since you can change the background and other settings in your account you can keep your branding consistent.
Many designers are now offering twitter background design services and some designers are Specializing in it and doing great business. Check out some of these random cool twitter backgrounds below to see what people have been doing to make the most of their Twitter accounts! I was surprised at how many large accounts had default or ugly backgrounds, but I suspect more and more people will get custom backgrounds in the near future.
Creative Twitter backgrounds
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Very nice backgrounds.
Hey loving the article mate, thanks for including my background in the post appreciate it! That would explain all the recent followers I have been getting recently ha ha! ill be sure to twit the article on twitter! =D
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Thanks for the article. Nice backgrounds.
Regards,
Lama Kalla
Nice Blog for All !!!!!!!!!!!
I’m a new user of twitter and I didnt even know that you can customise your background!
I know a little html so is there a place I can use it?
Can anyone tell me how or where I change it in my settings?
These are great! Nicely done.
some great background styles here. Very colorful and inventive.
great collection… very inspirational!
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These are very cool, I didnt even know you could do this on Twitter. Is there any info on how one would go about installing these backgrounds?
Amazing inspiration. i am gonna design a cool background for myself now.
I got inspired by your post and did my own background:
http://twitter.com/jlambert
Thanks for posting it.
Turns our you can do 200x600px images on facebook too! Check it out:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=510446799&ref=profile
Thanks for the inspiration.
I like your FaceBook idea Jonathan I never thought of making the image really long! Don’t think I have ever seen that done before, very creative.
The backgrounds look amazing! What a cool way for twitter users to customize their accounts.
Great ones … I don’t know if it’s “twitterrific” but I could include mine too http://www.twitter.com/adrianapan . I think it’s pretty much outstanding too. Cheers and again, good article, keep up the good work!
Wow! Awesome!
Just starting to dabble with Twitter backgrounds myself.
Does anyone know what the pixel dimenisions of a Twitter background should be?
Very cool backgrounds!
Like a lot of people I’m just starting out on twitter and haven’t even thought about customising my background yet. But seeing these beauties I’m gonna get straight on it…
I’d also like to know the dimensions, just a standard web size I’m guessing?
Cheers for the inspiration!
Check mine out http://twitter.com/tylerschaefer I think it could be on here
I just designed mine as well. Would love to create custom avatars and backgrounds for others who are looking for something fun and illustrated.
http://twitter.com/dianekolar
Nice collection of designs. Id like to see some more dynamic colors like the tweetertags.
I rate DesignBay’s as one of the cleverest I’ve seen http://twitter.com/designbay_com
Pretty cool designs! I think with twitter growing as fast as it is today it’s important to stand out from the rest of the people. Having a quality background is one of the steps towards getting that done. There are many sources available to get free backgrounds so if one can’t create a good one, just grab one. When people see an account that looks legit, chances are they will follow you and the cycle repeats itself with new visitors.
Very cool designs you got here! I like the fact that a lot of twitter designs are really unique and creative vs just plain old bland! It really shows character.
Some stunning works here, thanks…but…you didn’t include the beauty I made for
http://twitter.com/marci_lall
Check it out and maybe you’d like to add it on your next post like this. thanks (:
nice work..i like it so much…this post will be linked to my blog..
I love this one: http://www.twitter.com/tubebutler. Clean and classy…
yeh nice! it looks like a good touch to the networking world. i like it!
Check out my page. http://twitter.com/dianekolar
Hope you like it!
my background http://twitter.com/JonathanArmani
Check it out =)
Please check out my Twitter background from 5th December 09 when I will be going all Christamssy!
http://twitter.com/robbydesigns
I thank you for your article.
I followed these links and found, that you don’t actually have to pay to get cool Twitter backgrounds. I found many web pages, which also offer cool and interesting design for Twitter and you can get them for free.
I hope that this will help you and the readers of this blog. Thank you again and I encourage you to write even more articles like this. They inspire a lot!
Here is the link to article an article, which I wrote: http://fr.ee/article/where-to-find-free-twitter-backgrounds
Here’s my background design on twitter: http://twitter.com/ponkanen
Great collection of twitter backgrounds, Well done!!!!
Woah this is great! GOsh, I can’t believe my eyes. Twitter has transform and made loads of creative and nice designs…
fascinating
twit : iagdint
This is a great collection. Check out my super clean and colourful background at http://twitter.com/calindaniel