How to Personalize Your Twitter Profile

You can personalize your Twitter page a number of different ways. Twitter provides a selection of backgrounds and colors, hundreds of websites online offer thousands of different backgrounds , or you can make your own Twitter background or color theme.

Personalize Your

Twitter Page with Twitter:

First login into your Twitter account and click on the 'Settings' link at the top of your page. Next click on the 'Design' tab. Here you can pick a Twitter profile theme by clicking on 'Select a theme'. Make sure you click 'save changes'. All of your Twitter profile colors such as text, links, and borders will be coordinated to the theme you pick.

This is also where you will upload your new Twitter background if you downloaded one from another site, have one created for you or create your own. Rather than selecting a Twitter theme click 'Change background image' under the Twitter supplied themes. Click 'Browse..', locate the image on your computer and click 'save changes'.

You can also click 'Change design colors' link where you have the options of changing background, text, links, sidebar, and sidebar border colors.

Pros & Cons:

Pros - This method of personalizing your Twitter profile is the quickest and easiest method.

Cons - Thousands of other people are using the same method.

Personalize Your Twitter Page with Other Sites:

Do a search on Google, Yahoo or any other search engine for 'Twitter backgrounds' and your results will be phenomenal. There are two forms of Twitter background sites.

The first type of Twitter background sites allow you to browse their collection of backgrounds. Once you find a background you like you will save it to your computer (right click save as or click to download). Each site will provide instructions how to save your Twitter background.