How often do you use Twitter?  You might just use it to follow a few friends, or you might use it to market your web site projects.  There are a lot of ways to use Twitter as a service.  My question that I pose to you is, how can you make it better looking?

Twitter Backgrounds – Many people have customized the backgrounds of their Twitter pages to display more information about them.  This can easily be done by using a really big background image that you type the content on as a part of the image.  Darren Rowse (as seen above) has done an excellent job at that on the @problogger Twitter account.

Twitter Colors – Want to change the default color scheme your Twitter profile uses?  All you need to do is login to Twitter.com, and then click on the Settings link at the top of the web page.

Next, click on Design – and you will be given several default design choices.

You can also click the “Change Background Image” button to change your background image or click, “Change Design Colors” to tweak the colors that your profile uses for the backgrounds, text, and links.

When you are done – just click on the button labeled, “Save Changes”.

Your Twitter “About” Link – Have you added your web site’s URL to your Twitter profile?  You can do that by going to Settings > Profile.

Some people will put in their web site’s URL, which is perfectly reasonable.  One neat tip you might try though is to create a special page on your web site dedicated to people who find you from Twitter.  For example, you could create yourdomain.com/twitter, and on that page welcome your Twitter followers and post specific content geared more towards that audience and topics they might be more interested in.

When there are millions of people using Twitter every single day, you have to use a little creativity to make your tweets stick out from the crowd.  Remember, you can follow Lunarpages on Twitter too @lunarpages.com.