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Here are some great tools that will help you make a custom twitter background that will help set you apart from every other person or business out there. A little time upfront can make you a lot more contacts and money down the line.

Twitter Background Tools

Free Twitter Designer
Free Twitter Designer will help you create your own background and for free instead of paying $97 from some of the designer services.

Twitter Background Checker
You can use this tool to check your background and see how it looks.

Twitter Background 0.1
This will help you see the background image on a Twitter page.

Twitlay
Free layouts and background generator for Twitter.

Twilk
What if you could take your friends faces and put them on your Twitter background? Now you can.

Twiback
Here is how you can change your background automatically.

Artweet
This will help you make a background with images and some of your messages.

ClickableNow
Makes your links in your backgrounds clickable.

Peekr
Easier to take a look at your Twitter background.

PrettyTweet
Free background generator. Good one too.

TwitBacks
Create free branded background and promote them on the net.

Flickr My Background
Puts your Flickr images as your background and check for new images automatically.

Free Backgrounds

Creative Twitter Background
Tutorials for changing your backgrounds and uploading your images. .

Custom Background for Twitter
More than 50 free Twitter backgrounds provided.

Custom Tweets
Free Twitter backgrounds and layouts.

Twitter Images
The themes and images on Twitter Images are free for use as twitter backgrounds.

ChethStudios
Free Twitter backgrounds PSD layered files.

Free Twitter Backgrounds – Hi-Res Grungy Set 1
A set of grungy Twitter backgrounds that you can customize and use for free. They’re all hi-res PNG files.

We Love Backgrounds
The best source for twitter backgrounds. They have the largest range of free twitter backgrounds on the net.

Web Design Beach
Web Design Beac presents you six brand new Twitter backgrounds for you to download and use if you like.

Tweety Got Back
Free Twitter backgrounds and themes.

TweetHawk
Beautiful free twitter background themes.

Pattern Cooler
Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library.

Free Twitter Gallery
Free Twitter themes and layouts.

Profile Band
Tired of having a boring twitter page? You need one of Profile Band’s free and unique twitter backgrounds!

Twitter Backgrounds
1000’s of unique free Twitter backgrounds. Click “Get Twitter Background” beneath any image you want to put on your Twitter.

TwitrBackgrounds
TwitrBackgrounds.com, the premier site for Twitter backgrounds. They have the largest selection of free Twitter backgrounds and each design is made by them in house.

Twitpaper
An online community where hundreds of Twitter layouts & backgrounds can be downloaded FREE.

Doctor Twitter
Doctor Twitter.com is the leading FREE background and layout site for bringing your Twitter background back to life.

GraphicsHunt
Graphicshunt.com is a site to get all the twitter backgrounds that you need and want.

Twitter Backgrounds Base
Twitter Backgrounds Base or shortly TwBGS is one of the largest collection of unique, interesting and free Twitter backgrounds submitted and recommended by designers and by different Twitter users.

Twitrounds
twitrounds was established to help provide high quality twitter backgrounds for all you twitter lovers.

Zidalgo Twitter Theme Pack 001
Zidalgo Twitter Theme Pack 001 designed by Christopher Anderto.

Twitter Gallery
On Twittergallery.com you can find the best twitter backgrounds on the net. Simply Click the gallery post, and change your twitter background within a minute. It is that simple !

Twitter-Backgrounds
Free cute Twitter backgrounds.

MyTwitterBackgrounds
MyTwitterBackgrounds is your top source for the hottest twitter backgrounds. Keep checking back as many new Free Twitter Backgrounds are added every day!

SweetTweet
SweetTweet is everything from twitter backgrounds to twitter buttons and they’ll even show you how to use twitter too!

Twitter Background Tutorials

Create A Twitter Background using PowerPoint

Create A Twitter Background using Adobe Illustrator
RC shares a video tutorial about designing a background for a twitter page using Illustrator.

Design a Unique Twitter Background
Make your Twitter page stand out (in a good way!) with four simple tips.

A Twitter Background Made Using Photos of Facebook Friends
Create a background of your Twitter page with Facebook friends via the picture collage trick.

4 Ways to Optimize Your Twitter Background

Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices
the best practices around Twitter background design and get to work creating our own.

How To Create A Twitter Background That Flows With Your Website Design
A step by step tutorial on how to let your websites design flow straight into Twitter.

How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll create one of our own around a central mascot: a highly detailed twitter bird, that you’ll have to draw yourself!

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