Pimp My Twitter?

During the month of May mashable.com ran a "How to" article about creating custom twitter backgrounds. In my short time as a member of the twitterati. I've run across many styles of background. I left mine mostly the gaudy green color that matches my blogspot blog. I'm a huge fan of keeping it simple. Sometimes the backgrounds take away from the content, which in my opinion is the most important thing on the page! Some of the twitter backgrounds folks have chosen are way too "busy" or distracting. Thankfully, twitter hasn't become like MySpace, where on a t1 connection I have to wait many minutes for just the background to load onto my computer!

There is ONE twitter background that I really like because it has functionality... here it is:


How about that! It just happens to be Ben Parr's current layout (or at least it was current in May!) I've been thinking about adding something similar in my left-hand twitter sidebar... I'm going to experiment with teh following:

MyTweetSpace, of which Mr. Parr writes "MyTweetSpace is one of the simplest ways to create a Twitter background with minimal effort. It allows users to create badges, add graphics, play with text, and more to create elegant backgrounds and left-hand text columns. You can even log in with Twitter and MyTweetSpace will automatically update your background." I wonder if that's what he used? Or maybe he used TwitBacks, which "...specializes in left-hand column-based backgrounds."

Heck, I might even end up monetizing my twitter page!

Hmmmmmmmm...

let's see, I'd like to add links to the following

- blogspot blog

- MyBlogLog page

- AboutMe

- LiveJournal page

- should I add one for facebook????

Which reminds me, I haven't used LJ all that much in recent weeks/months. But at least it's there, patiently waiting for me to put it to use, sort of a digital "spare tire" to keep the old blog engine functional...

Tags: twitter, tweet