How I Personalized My Twitter Home Page
My regular readers here on freelance writing already know that I’ve kind of fallen in love with Twitter lately. When I first joined Twitter last year I never realized the true potential of the social media platform and after the initial excitement I totally flaked out on it. Back then I was a victim of social media burnout because I ended up joining about 20 odd platforms.
Since then I have learned to compound my social marketing efforts and these days I don’t spend more than one hour a day on the major platforms I use, (MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook).
Twitter is by far my most preferred platform because of the simplistic user interface. I also like the fact that one can personalize their Twitter homepage quite easily and I have done this over the past weekend myself.
To do what I did I needed a few tools:
- Paint.net
- The free Twitter background themes at Twitterbacks
- The free photoshop psd plugin from Frank Blumenberg
After downloading and installing all of the above I was ready for the task at hand – customizing my Twitter home page to something a little more attractive and unique.
By being different than the masses I hope to eventually attract more followers which allows me to network with like-minded people through social media.
I also created a personal video greeting to welcome new readers of my blurbs by going to Bubble Tweet and creating a personalized video greeting. You can see mine by clicking on this link. The result is pretty cool I think.
By using paint I was able to manipulate the free psd file I was given at Twitterbacks and create a nice “business card” type of Twitter homepage without pestering anyone to look at my websites.
In fact, people will have to type the URLs into a browser by themselves which shows they are wishing to find out more about me and what I do for a living.
Combining social media with business couldn’t be any easier than this.
I hope this will help you to become a little more creative with your own Twitter home page yourself. No more excuses.
Once you are done, show me the result by commenting here so that we can all follow each other and connect on Twitter as well.
Monika
About the Author: I'm a passionate freelance writer and problogger. To further build my business I'm also in the process of building my own niche empire which pays me residual income.
Writer Dad | Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
I agree, a custom Twitter homepage is awesome. I LOVE mine, but could never have done it by myself. My partner at the Inkwell Dave, who also designed my header, made this really splashy and cool looking page with a typewriter ribbon running down the left side. It makes me happy every time the page loads.
Monika | Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
@ WD: I have to check yours out then. been a while since I saw it.
Fiar | Conservative Humor & Satire | Apr 17, 2009 | Reply
The Gimp is another good image editor that is free (and open source). I just edited the background colors and did a banner flipped sideways to brand it the same as my blog. Over time, I might try something more ambitious.
Monika | Apr 18, 2009 | Reply
@ Fiar: yes I agree. I’ve used GIMP on my old computer and was very happy with it. Then I got a free version of a good software from a friend and have forgotten all about GIMP.