TwitterBackgrounds.com is the largest free Twitter backgrounds site. They have a slew of free backgrounds available for your Twitter accounts, or you can purchase a custom Twitter background.
A custom background is a background that brands your site with your personal or professional brands. You can include a featured image, your contact and business information, your logo or brand, and customized colors.
I know, you could do this yourself in Photoshop, but wouldn’t it be so much better ( and more perfectly sized) if a graphic design team did it for you?
Customized Twitter backgrounds are generally $79 but with code Bubblicious, you’ll receive $10 off the cost.
Not up for a fee? They’ve got some gorgeous – and free – backgrounds available as soon as you open their site.
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by Michelle Lentz
Thanks to Brian’s own Twitter feed, I’ve discovered that its possible to make Twitter backgrounds with Powerpoint or Keynote. You don’t have to rely on Twitter’s own backgrounds or your lacking graphic design skills.
One of Brian’s tweets led me to Thomas Carillo’s The Closet Entrepreneur, where we’re offered Keynote and Powerpoint templates for Twitter backgrounds. Cool, yes?
I think the Twitter background is a pretty underrated thing. It’s a great way to advertise yourself and your personal (or professional) brand in graphics and using more than 140 characters if you want. I’ve seen some rather kick-ass Twitter backgrounds. It’s nice to know there’s a template out there that helps me create a more professional appearance without my having to actually know the pixel sizes for the various columns and rows.
Thomas also points us to the Extended Twitter background collection on Flickr, which is impressive on its own and may serve to inspire you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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