Recently Twitter has announced several changes… the latest ones are:

1. Terms of Services. Four main areas were affected by the Terms of Services – Advertising, Ownership, API’s and Spam.  The most important one to many users is the Ownership. 

Ownership—Twitter is allowed to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets because that’s what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you. Added to this is more notice to users that because of this term, you need to be sure to give credit where credit is due when retweeting or reposting other Twitter Users content.

2. Design.  Twitter has added four new background designs available under your profile, settings and design.

Great for people just wanting to use the templates, gives a few more choices. I still think most people should take the time to create their own custom background or have one created for you. We talked about this back in July and how important a background is to your branding.

Twitter is definitely evolving and trying to keep up with the needs of users yet make it a worthy and worthwhile service to users.  Great to see.

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One of the most important branding tools you can do with your Twitter profile is to create a customized background.  Personally, I create them in Adobe Photoshop using clients unique images, logos and anything else possible to make it part of their business brand and image. 

Not everyone has Photoshop, nor the skills to use it… there are many other resources on the internet and several are very easy to use.  Today, in my readings, I came across a blog post that makes reference to several of these do it your self sites and other ones that help you create twitter backgrounds.

Thanks to Bill Stevens at the DailyTwitip for his great post and I am sure many of you can use one of these resources to set up your own custom background.

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