Twitter is a simple tool. Very simple. Sometimes maybe even too simple. That’s why it’s so astonishing to see all the ways people have been using their backgrounds to make their profiles look better. From minimalistic patterns to advanced photorealistic illustrations, here are 25 of the best Twitter backgrounds of 2009.
Who’s your favorite?

























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Proud and honored to have 4 of our custom background designs included in this list! Thanks!
WOW! I am in some great company here. Thank you so much for including me. I appreciate the thought.
I am honored to make this list! Great backgrounds.
Mine was done by KillerTweets.com (@badasstweets on Twitter)
Congrats to everyone. Tweet you later : )
These are nice finds! I work hard on mine too.. plus they are from the heart.
http://twitter.com/kayla
The art of a seamless tile or craftily placed gradient saves us all.
Nice selection. Thanks your post I discovered 4 new interesting tweeterers.
My favorite is the kriscolvin’s background.
kriscolvin’s background is from Little Lion’s iStock seamless backgrounds:
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-5562162-flower-s-scent-seamless-pattern.php
Thanks for featuring my profile @CoolTweets which can be found also at tweetcool.com.
I’m actually a little more fond of my personal profiles background a little more than CoolTweets. check out @DigitalSkraps if you’re curious!
Thanks again!!!
Good. But, why mine is not included?
@DeeJay Don’t worry, there’s always next year
Hey thanks a lot for including me on the list! Really appreciated! Looks like I’m in good company here
They are all awesome, but for some reason I love the paper cut-out Image Designs background.
Congrats Matt!
Tweetpages rocks!
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Really nice, I wanna be there too
Thank you for adding my profile up there (@kursed), didn’t really think anyone would find it that good. =)
Tnx guys for including my twitter profile background! I really appreciated!
Thx bigtime for letting me be a part of this list too!
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I really like StickyCreative’s background, not just because I know him
Great backgrounds
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wow nice backgrounds, thanks for the list brother.
I thank you for your article.
I followed these links and found, that you don’t actually have to pay to get cool Twitter backgrounds. I found many web pages, which also offer cool and interesting design for Twitter and you can get them for free.
I hope that this will help you and the readers of this blog. Thank you again and I encourage you to write even more articles like this. They inspire a lot!
Here is the link to article an article, which I wrote
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Can you please include my Twitter Background. It is not that awesome but you may consider it.
Thank you very much, in advance.
Marry Xmass.
thanks very much
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Love your selection, just in case you will make another list together check out my twitter, its fun, creative, and unique
twitter.com/metroguest
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