The New Look Option For Your Twitter Presentation

In case you haven’t heard, Twitter did a little tweaking on the way you present yourself to the rest of the world!

You can now add a header to your profile or just keep it the old way.  The new look header takes centre’s your profile pic, allows for a custom background and moves your bio in front of the background.  The black home bar at the top of your page has also changed with a new button “ME” and the removal of the old “Head & Shoulder” silhouette, which is now the common gear like symbol which usually indicates a settings screen.

The new look

We all know there are people who aren’t going to be very happy about this, some will be ecstatic and naturally those the will be indifferent (as long as they don’t step backwards at Twitter).

Making the change is really simple provided you follow a few simple rules.  Click the fancy new button on the right beside the compose a tweet button and select “Settings” from the drop down.  Then click “Design” and scroll to the bottom where it says “Customize Your Own” and have at ‘er!

The minimum dimension for your custom header is 1252×626 and a maximum file size of 5MB… which actually gives you a good amount of room for play.

Draw back??? Well, depending on what tools you use to access your account, you may be in the dark until you hit up the web.  From the Twitter Blog;

Upload an all-new header photo on mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android or twitter.com, and the same image will appear whenever anyone views your profile on the web or these apps.

I can’t wait to see what some of you creative types do for your accounts.  What do you think of the new options? Let me know.  Also, if you see any new profiles that are taking full advantage of this, share them in the comments!