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How to Customize Your Twitter Design

When you customize your profile design, everything you see on Twitter will be set in the theme you have chosen. Others will see your theme on your profile page. 

To customize your design with a premade theme:

  1. Log in to www.twitter.com
  2. In the top navigation bar dropdown menu, click Settings (or go to http://twitter.com/account/settings)
  3. Click the tab labeled Design
  4. Select a premade theme by clicking on it
  5. Click Save changes at the bottom of the page when you're done

How to customize your own design:

  1. If you want to upload your own background image or customize the sidebar and font colors of your page, scroll down to the Customize your own section of your Design tab.
  2. Click on Choose file to upload a background image. Images justify to the top left of the screen. You cannot stretch your image to fit. It will display as the size you uploaded. 
  3. Check the box to Tile background if you want your picture to repeat across the background.
  4. If your image isn't very large, choose the background color that will show behind the image.
  5. Choose a color for links.
  6. Save your changes in order to see the design on your page. 

Note: Background images must be in PNG, GIF, or JPG format, smaller than 800k. If your image's file size is too large, the easiest way to get it down is to use and image editing program or web app to shrink the image. Animated GIFs are not supported as background images. 

Having trouble?

If you're having trouble uploading an image as your background, click here for image-upload troubleshooting tips.

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