How-to: Customize your Twitter background

As we previously posted, everybody and their mom is now on Twitter (well, except for my mother, who doesn't own a computer). It's fairly easy to customize your Twitter background to display whatever you want. Once you're in there, you can also customize the text color, links, and sidebar colors, and make a fully customized experience for your followers. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Access Settings

Sign in to your Twitter account and click on Settings in the top right corner.

2. Access the "Design" Section.

Click on the "Design" tab. From there you can select a theme by clicking on one of the pre-designed theme thumbnails.

3. Upload your Background Image

To upload your own background, click the "Change background image" button at the bottom, and upload an image file. Checking the "tile background" box means that your image will be repeated to fill up the entire screen. You should only use this option if your background is very simple.

4. Customize your Colors

If your new background image doesn't jive with Twitter's default pastel blue and green color scheme, you can change the colors for the sidebar, links, and text. To do that, click on "Change design colors". Clicking on a color with bring up a color picker, from which you can select the color you want. Select your new color, and click "Done".

5. Save your Changes

Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the screen, and you're done! Easy peasy, huh?