We’re all on Twitter now, and it needs no introduction. But with so many people on Twitter, how can you make your profile stand out?
Twitter doesn’t offer a lot of tools for customizing your profile. It doesn’t go much further than a background image and a few colors.
But as you’ll see below, that’s more than enough for some people.
We’ve collected together over 35 of the most creative Twitter profiles around. The most common trend is a fancy background design to the left, but you’ll see that some people have used very large images to get effects right across the screen.
Stuart Robertson 
James Fleeting 
With so many millions of users on Twitter though, we definitely haven’t seen every profile. If you know of a great looking Twitter page, share the link with us here!
Which profile was your favorite?
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Daniel Brusilovsky (1 comments)10 August 09
Great post — really creative backgrounds.
Cheryl Allin (1 comments)10 August 09
These are all terrific! Of course, I’m rather partial to my own… what do you think? http://twitter.com/VirtuAllin
cheth (1 comments)10 August 09
Nice list, glad to see some of my friends here.. hey what about mine?
@cheth
Chris (24 comments)10 August 09
What about mine?
http://twitter.com/psycko
Ana (6 comments)5 September 09
Nice background, very cool and unique.
G.Han (5 comments)10 August 09
Great post! Think the Twitter background innovation is a big wave now.
Feel free to check mine out here.
ComputerArts.dk (2 comments)10 August 09
I Think that maybe my creative background could be pushed onto this post – don’t you think ?
http://twitter.com/computerartsdk
kind regards
Mark Barner
Ana (6 comments)5 September 09
Wow, your twitter page is nice. Mine is pretty lame. I am working on making it better.
ComputerArts.dk (2 comments)6 September 09
Thanks
check out my project http://pimpmytwitter.wordpress.com
Denise (3 comments)10 August 09
Love the eye candy tnx for sharing…off to redo my Twitter page…:)
Ganesh (1 comments)11 August 09
Nice collection ….. Narendra !
Ben Gross (1 comments)11 August 09
Some are great. Would appreciate any feedback on mine, took a photo of a really old form of communication to work as a backdrop, not sure if it works? http://twitter.com/thenarrowescape...
Alastair Conditioning (6 comments)11 August 09
Great selection, I love Stuart Robertson’s background!
A u d e e (2 comments)11 August 09
plechi (1 comments)11 August 09
nice set, what about this one http://www.twitter.com/plechicz
Luis Ahmed (2 comments)11 August 09
wow! nice list, but I think mine have to be included, if you want check it out and I’m sure you will agree with me. http://twitter.com/Ahmed_cbgrafica
Katie Woods (1 comments)11 August 09
Great collection!! I’ve recently re-designed my twitter background following my recent trip to Hong Kong. It’s my artist impression of a photo i took on approach to Kowloon Park in Tst, Hong Kong. Have a look! http://twitter.com/katielw
Lucas Tadeu (1 comments)11 August 09
Awsome collection!All really creative backgrounds =O
Ömer UZUN (6 comments)11 August 09
Great list but .. http://twitter.com/qmer
sharpimedia (1 comments)11 August 09
Nice collection and really creative backgrounds! If you want check it out and I’m sure you will like my twitter background. http://twitter.com/sharpimedia
Wilchen (1 comments)11 August 09
Check this out http://twitter.com/Wilchen558
BarryMadden (1 comments)12 August 09
Great list! love how creative people are with their backgrounds!
Sadly mine didn’t make the list | http://www.twitter.com/BarryMadden
Franz Jeitz (1 comments)12 August 09
Great list. Thanks for including mine!
shaunjudy (4 comments)12 August 09
These are some nice pieces of work.
feel free to check my background out, it is still a work in progress. But not to shabby.
http://twitter.com/shaunjudy
Shay Howe (1 comments)12 August 09
Very nice post! I often wonder how many people truly look at individual Twitter pages with all of the applications available to use outside of the website itself. Maybe we’ll be able to get some sort of analytics on our Twitter pages sooner or later, for now I just simply track the outbound link to my Twitter page.
Feel free to check out my background at http://www.twitter.com/letscounthedays
Todd (1 comments)12 August 09
Cool stuff
My work twitter is pretty good
http://twitter.com/todd_printart
heratik (1 comments)13 August 09
i like mine! http://www.twitter.com/heratik
feel free to follow!
yes, i like world of warcraft
blog evangelist (1 comments)13 August 09
nice nice. have you seen my site http://twitter.com/blogevangelist
Emilie Wyqued (1 comments)14 August 09
I liked so many I was inspired to re-do my twitter page: http://twitter.com/WyquedDesign
Blaine Bullman (5 comments)15 August 09
Thanks for sharing these inspiring twitter backgrounds. They’re definitely giving me ideas for my twitter background. I also find a good place to look for background inspiration is to look on twitter background galleries and there’s a number of them you can find by searching on google.
My favorite here though was Mike Smiths twitter background but he now has changed it but I find simple and easy on the eyes if better than a complicated or patterned background.
Blaine
Ashley Jensen (1 comments)15 August 09
Yeah these are sweet, definitely gave me some ideas. Thanks for the post! And of course, here’s mine…
http://twitter.com/jensencreative
Dave Sparks (1 comments)17 August 09
Nice, certainly something I must get around to sorting out.
kelake (3 comments)18 August 09
Some of those backgrounds are really ‘busy’.
Lukes Beard (1 comments)18 August 09
Nice
i enjoyed that.
Lee Munroe (8 comments)19 August 09
Nice collection, loving Toy Story
Michael (22 comments)20 August 09
Great report. But how can I create my own outstanding twitter background?
Katie (5 comments)22 August 09
http://www.twitter.com/buzzdan
Supasonik (1 comments)23 August 09
Some nice backgrounds here.
Should mines be on that list?
http://twitter.com/supasonik
Lungu Alin (6 comments)26 August 09
Nice background here http://twitter.com/lungualin
discount web design (3 comments)28 August 09
some great BG here. cool
purwokerto (1 comments)29 August 09
nice,so i can change my twitt background,thank.
jen (2 comments)29 August 09
ok one more: http://twitter.com/itsjengordon
Dani McDaniel (1 comments)6 September 09
Hey thanks for including my background!!
eve (3 comments)6 September 09
thanks. it’s interesting that 4 or 5 of them use Polaroid-style images… the Polaroid picture is firmly entrenched in our design consciousness!
Sneh Roy (4 comments)7 September 09
Good stuff! I am @LBOI on twitter
kad1r (1 comments)9 September 09
http://www.twitter.com/kad1r
LayoutsFactory (1 comments)9 September 09
Nice background collection
info bisnis (1 comments)10 September 09
what anice post Bos, so i can changed my tweet background,many thanks for you Narendra.pram From Indonesia say HAII!!wish you all best.
giantagel (1 comments)11 September 09
nice bg really, what do u think about my bg. when i have time i will design a fantastic one for u
evertt de sousa (3 comments)14 September 09
very nice post
Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing (7 comments)22 September 09
Twitter, it seems, is the new playground to try out new ideas for creative backgrounds. A very enjoyable collection, indeed. Loved Khayyam Wakil’s page. Very nice.
The Fiery Source (1 comments)23 September 09
Very nice, Im getting one
mirko cianca (1 comments)28 September 09
http://www.twitter.com/mirkocianca
Martin (16 comments)7 December 09
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
Man Van Richmond (19 comments)17 February 10
Well researched post, i love it. I’m just new in twitter and I don’t know how create this backgrounds in Twitter. I hope there will be a post that tells it how.
Michael Martin (1511 comments)17 February 10
Do you mean how to make the actual image (in a program like Photoshop), or how to add the image and play with the colors of your profile on Twitter?
David Masterson (1 comments)22 February 10
Great post! Always looking for new ideas for my Twitter page.
Thanks,
Dave
PSDDude (1 comments)7 April 10
Hmmmmmm … I think it is time to create a design for my twitter account http://twitter.com/PSDDude i will keep the blue tone color because i like it
Web Design (27 comments)10 May 10
As days pass by it seems that I encounter more and more interesting and inspiring ideas not only for Twitter backgrounds but for a whole bunch of areas related.
Thanks, cheers!
Mckinley Media Group (21 comments)25 June 10
I like Aaron Miller’s
Glenn Lopez (1 comments)5 July 10
Im usualy not a big fan of stuff cluttered on the background images of peoples twitter page but there are some here that I actualy liked… I’ve always thought that Abusive use of design elements and graphics are always bad for a website, becuase they just mislead the site’s visitors. Only design to improve the web page not just to decorate it. From a usability point of view, less is always more.
website deisgn (7 comments)12 July 10
Great post! Always looking for new ideas for my Twitter page.
Mark Searle (1 comments)5 August 10
Very nice designs but people should always think about the size of the screen its viewed on due to twitter centering.
For example most of the above will have the left hand text covered when being viewed on any computer or laptop with 17″ or small screen.
website design montreal (2 comments)18 August 10
very nice dude, mine is simple one http://twitter.com/dennymonster
Bristol Web Design (40 comments)27 August 10
Nice collection of twitter backgrounds. I could do with sprucing up my twitter page but I’ve never got round to it. These will definitely help me make my twitter page look better as there are plenty to choose from.