Twitter launches personalized banner images

In an another effort to make the Twitter profile pages more personalized, CEO Dick Costolo announced the new outlook of the Twitter profile pages with several changes. The most evident and visible of all the changes is the “Header Photo” which resembles to Facebook timeline’s banner photo. The banner on Twitter will run horizontally at the top of the screen and will consist of a background picture, your photo, name, and other important details. Thus, the new header photo or Twitter banner will help you personalize your Twitter page to a new extent.

Basically this new edition of banner photo at the top of Twitter profile is targeted to benefit individuals and entrepreneurs running some sort of business. The company or even a freelancer can make a good use of this header photo to showcase his/her area of expertise. Also people visiting the Twitter profile of certain person can recognize interests of the person or the core specialization of the business by having a mere look at this banner. 

What are the real advantages of these profile images? The businesses can add their logo or latest update or news about a launch in their Twitter banner and can even use it for advertising and promotion purposes. The banners can be customized in a way that static ads appear under the superficial picture and information. Also the new avatar of the Twitter brand page will be solely yours eliminating ads of other companies to be shown on your brand page.

Here are few tips to choose the banner image, no wonder that the image should be attractive and delivers to the audience the exact message that you want to convey. Also, as mentioned above the banner image that you will choose will have text written superficially on it such that the image goes in the background.  Therefore, one must choose a very clear picture without too much of hotchpotch so that the text which will be white in colour is very much readable to the viewers. Another point to be noted is the resolution of the picture. Twitter recommends 1200 X 600 pixels image for high quality. Remember more the resolution better will be the quality.

Twitter has definitely done a very fine job in its efforts to personalize the Twitter profile page so that it solves your purpose of branding, marketing and promotion at the same time. Twitter banner or header photo is definitely a great positive in this whole effort. So what are you waiting for, go and make best use of this feature today!