Great post, Wayne! Thanks for mentioning TwitterBackgroundsGallery.com We daily feature 5-10 best backgrounds submitted and recommended by twitter fans themselves. By now the collection has grown to 600+ entries in 20+ categories. BTW, have you seen your own BG feature in the gallery http://twitterbackgroundsgallery.com/2009/01/06/waynesutton/?

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There’s one major problem with Twitter backgrounds: A lot of the linking info can end up being hidden.

For instance Problogger’s websites are lost under the Twitter stream even on my widescreen at 1360×768 resolution.

Since there are few design & online standards, backgrounds become iffy, although I use one of the free services.

It’s time that Twitter allowed the ability to include a full profile with more than one link. What’s currently allowed is just not ‘social.’

Good list of resources here though. For a true extended profile I prefer Retaggr’s new ability to host your own domain name or chi.mp.

http://pamirkiciman.info/
http://pamirkiciman.mp/

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@Marina thanks for the link about being featured.

@Gassho, yes there should be a standard and hopefully twitter will allow us to add more than one link soon.

Thanks for the comments

Thanks Wayne I have to give it up, another great post. But hopefully we will continue to see designers come up with new and creative twitter backgrouds

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Hi Wayne, thanks for the mention! While I’d love to take credit for at least a part of the Twitter backgrounds, I’m sure someone else was doing them before I was.

I did create mine without seeing any like it previously, but many folks were thinking along the same lines at that time: branding.

Heck, it’s probably time for me to update mine in any case.

-Rick

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here’s another free app that we launched about 2 – 3 weeks ago. http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com. It gives people who don’t have the design skills/tools the ability to design a professional looking background. check it out.

@jack thanks for the link, good luck with the site

Thanks for the list of twitter background. I’d like to visit all of those to choose the best background for myself as well.

Cheers.

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Good article. Will help a lot of folks up their presence.

Made my background from a full page program book ad for one of my engagements that I had created some time back and added social media specific elements to it. Doesn’t even try to be seen on either side of the Twitter panel. There is no way to really determine how wide a given user’s window will be, so use that to encourage use of “View Background Image” from the browser and see the whole thing unencumbered.

Wayne, Thanks for a great post.. will need to spiff up the Dogear-Nation twitter account!

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Great read kind sir. It took me half a day to “pimp” out my twitter page; so I mad props to any one who takes the time to do it.

Great article Wayne, but you forgot one of the best twitter layout sites..Doctor Twitter..one click apply backgrounds and all types of categories..good article either way..;)

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I thank you for your article.

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: http://fr.ee/article/where-to-find-free-twitter-backgrounds

Greetings Wayne,

Thanks Wayne for including us in your list

Have a great day,
- Matt Clark