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When you started your Twitter account, you chose from several of the Twitter Design templates to serve as a background for your Twitter page. If you have visited others are Twitter pages, you noticed the variety of background people have.

Your Twitter background is an important piece of real estate for your Twitter presence. You want to personalize this background so that it helps sell why people should follow you. If your background looks the same as thousands of other Twitter backgrounds, how are you going to stand out and get the attention you want? (You have 10 seconds to get people’s attention!)

You have several options to personalize your own Twitter design background. You can use free programs to customize your Twitter Design background. You can pay for a customized background and create it online. Or you can totally customize your Twitter background by hiring a graphic designer to make a one of a kind Twitter Design background. Here are some resources (a Google search will provide you with many others options):

Free customizing on line– www.twitbacks.com

Inexpensive customizing designs on line– http://www.twitterbackgrounds.com/

Hire a professional graphic artist to create a unique design–www.elance.com

Beyond the Graphics

A personalized or customized Twitter Design allows you to offer a bigger picture of yourself and more space for additional information about you. This larger picture of you should still have a good head and shoulder shot that clearly shows you face. You also want to be careful that your Twitter background does not become too cluttered so that it distract from your main focus.

The information box on the left side of your Twitter Background will be a box 160 px wide and 500 px high. Use this space to welcome people, a longer summary of your 160 character Bio. (Here is where you can use some of the longer materials you developed in the previous exercise–250 characters). You can also add links to other places such as your website, blog, and other social media sites where you participate.

These links are not clickable! So here’s a tip. Make them short enough for people to copy if they want to see you on other sites. You can use either http://bit.ly/ or http://tinyurl as a program to take longer URL and make them into shorter URL. Both of these programs take only a minute to reduce a longer URL to a short, easier to copy URL.

Now you have your own personalized Twitter Design background to help promote yourself on Twitter.

To be continued, your comments are welcomed…

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