In Tips, Tutorials Apr 28, 200974
13 Tutorials & Resources for a Perfect Twitter Background
Twitter is probably the most hyped social network out there, all the mainstream medias are talking about it and a lot of celebrities are using the service. The popularity of the website means that you get to connect with tons of other users, but it also means that you’ll have to stand out to do so. For that, having a great Twitter background is recommended to make a great first impression. Learn how to do this with the following collection of tutorials.
Twitter background guidelines
Technical information regarding the file dimensions for a Twitter background, its positioning and some recommended tools.

How to brand yourself with a Twitter background
Introduction to Twitter branding by Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios. Good advice on the type of Twitter background to chose, tiled image or not.

How to design the perfect Twitter background
An overview of various types of Twitter background, good read to make the right decision about how you will design your own background.

How to make a Twitter background picture
Step by step tutorial to create your Twitter background image with Photoshop.

Twitter Background using Adobe Illustrator
Video tutorial teaching you how to create your Twitter background using the popular vector drawing software.

Create a Twitter background using PowerPoint
For people with no Photoshop skills, this tutorial will explain you how to create your own Twitter background using PowerPoint. Some templates are provided in the article.

Create a Twitter background with Photoshop
Excellent video tutorial with in-depth explanations on how to create a Twitter background with Photoshop.

How to turn a texture into a seamlessly tiled background
Create your Twitter tiled background by editing a texture image with Photoshop.

Twitter background design how-to and best practices
Perhaps the most complete article about the creation of Twitter backgrounds.

High-quality Twitter backgrounds
A collection of free Twitter backgrounds for the people who are too lazy to create their own background.

Peekr
Peekr is a great website to view the entire background image of any Twitter user, very useful to get inspired by other people’s backgrounds.

Twitterbacks
A Flickr gallery of great Twitter extended backgrounds free to use.

1’000+ background patterns you can use for free
For the lazy ones, this website will offer you more than a thousand free patterns to chose from.

About the author: Mirko Humbert is a freelance designer from Switzerland. He shares his thoughts about his passion on his design blog. To connect with Mirko, you can follow him on Twitter.


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Thanks for featuring my post.
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http://blog.plasticmind.com/freebies/twitter-nutrition-facts/
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So, its worth to get hands on your own twitter background.
p.s. try to separate trackbacks, had to scroll down a lot
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Thanks for including my article, “How to brand yourself with a Twitter background.”
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A couple I would include
http://twitter.com/designbay_com
http://twitter.com/AdamCarn
http://twitter.com/MrTweet
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http://adobetuts.blogspot.com/2009/05/twitter-background-step-by-step-how-to.html
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Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for sharing.
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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
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You can find them located here:
http://jacemansjourney.com/tips-tricks/twitter-background-templates.html
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i only find scrit that make it disappear.
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