Design for Twitter 101

Your business needs to stay social. So you decided that you will create a twitter page and you will start posting news there. You have taken couple of steps in the right direction. But is it sufficient to just have a presence on twitter ? Twitter represents your company. And it should have your corporate identity on it. Here is how you can achieve that effect on Twitter. Start by changing the background color to match your main corporate identity color.  (via settings -> design -> change design colors) Hint: Darker colors in the background image will blend better with the white content area of twitter.   I also suggest that you use a custom background image rather than using default images on Twitter. The best way of making sure people get to know your company is if you place a company logo on the top left hand side of your background image.  Additionally, you may want to write down your contact info in the background image.  There are two available spots right hand side of the content area or the left hand side of the content area.  The main challenge is to know where the content are will be to better position your logo and your contact information on the Twitter page. The content area takes up about 1000px on your screen. This may help you to prepare a simple template for you to prepare a better background image for your Twitter account. Last but not the least you will want to upload a profile picture. (via settings ->profile )This will most likely be your company logo. Beware! The image needs to be a square. Otherwise, it will not look very well. You also need to make sure the image you are uploading is very simple to understand when it is tiny. As these images get displayed right next to your Tweets.

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This article as been written as a means of helping others learn more about Twitter. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.