Do you have a personalised Twitter background? Many tweople find it too cumbersome to bother with it. Which is a shame because the plain vanilla Twitter background may well throw you into the same pot as the bane of the web wide world: spammers. Spammers don’t bother with personalisation; they are into massive account creation and massive messaging whatever their medium. Twitter is not excluded here.
The first thing people see when they visit your Twitter account is your profile page: your photo usually loads first if you have one; spammers don’t bother with this either – now you know why you should. Then the background begins to load. As soon as colours and shapes begin to differ from Twitter’s vanilla scheme, they catch the eye of the visitor, arouse his/her curiosity and therefore entice your visitor to linger longer and check out who you are and what you have to say.
There are lots of sites listed in graphics section of the “Really Useful Twitter Tool Box” offering artsy, designed and fully customised Twitter backgrounds. I’ve recently come across a couple of new sites – http://www.killertweets.com/ and http://www.tootyourtwitter.com/ – and an extremely useful colour scheme designer – http://www.colourlovers.com/color.
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