{"id":3334,"date":"2014-03-13T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/4-visual-ways-to-create-a-cooler-twitter-page\/"},"modified":"2014-03-13T17:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T17:47:15","slug":"4-visual-ways-to-create-a-cooler-twitter-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/4-visual-ways-to-create-a-cooler-twitter-page\/","title":{"rendered":"4 VISUAL WAYS TO CREATE A COOLER TWITTER PAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whether you’re representing your brand, blog, business or yourself with a Twitter page, you’ll want to make the most of it. Images can help you do that. It helps to keep specific dimensions in mind while also using images that work well and look good. This article will walk you through some guidelines for optimizing the look of your Twitter page.<\/p>\n

Author’s Note: I will be using specifics (including pixel counts), but there is a lot of breathing room. Sometimes it just takes a little trial and error by uploading the image, previewing it, and getting a feel for how images ‘land’ on Twitter’s platform.<\/em><\/p>\n

1. BACKGROUND IMAGE.<\/strong> Twitter has several pre-loaded background images to choose from, but they are pretty generic, and in no way unique to your own badass identity. You can always upload your own background image. It’s often helpful to use a nice-looking pattern or texture as background image. It’s also common to use the space for information.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that the majority of screens people are using are 1368×768, but there are plenty of people using smaller or bigger screens. A lot of folks on the internet recommend using a standard 1600 x 1200 pixel background, but I find that this doesn’t quite work for those peeps in creative and tech fields using large monitors. So if you are using a Bigstock pattern or texture<\/a> as opposed to a solid color, I would recommend extending it out to the right side to reach to 2500 pixels wide. If it’s something you don’t want to enlarge or extend, Twitter gives you the option to choose a solid background color which, when needed, will extend out beyond the area of your image.<\/p>\n

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Twitter background image guides: 10 px safety margin; important content within 210 px; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You should also know to leave 10 pixels of safety margin on the left and top side of your image. If you would like to include a logo, address, url, or any important content in the left side of your margin, it’s common practice to place this within 10-210 pixels from the left. Anything that goes beyond this area has the potential to get covered up on smaller screens. Many people use images in the left margin that can get covered or half covered and are flexible with various screen sizes.<\/p>\n

If you want to include any content on the right side, avoid important information, again because of the uncertain screen size. I would recommend placing this content in the area between 1100 pixels and 1368 pixels from the left edge. Once you have your image set up, make sure it’s 72 dpi, and you might want to Save for Web in order to make sure it’s less than 2 MB, which is the maximum size that Twitter allows.<\/p>\n

The full background image just extends the striped pattern all the way to right, making it 2500 pixels wide. This is what I am uploading to Twitter:<\/p>\n

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Final background image for twitter: 2500px x 1200px<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once you have finished setting up your Twitter background image:<\/p>\n