Comments on: Centered Twitter Backgrounds

By: TheAL

TheAL — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:39:39 +0000

August 2011 – this still isn’t a reality. I was really hoping that this would be introduced when the new Twitter went site-wide. I know a lot of people are worried this will make the site too design-oriented, and then it’ll suffer Myspace’s fate. I think a good way to avoid that would be to reduce the maximum file size allowed. The result? Just look at Youtube. It’s perfectly feasible.

By: Tech

Tech — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 20:57:40 +0000

Hey guys, if you sign this petition, maybe we can get this feature implemented http://www.petitiononline.com/CBOT/petition.html

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 05:57:33 +0000

Umm, that line didn’t sound Open Source to me

By: Constant gardener

Constant gardener — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:09:33 +0000

Now that would be good.

By: Nollind Whachell

Nollind Whachell — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:40:46 +0000

With regards to improving the visual medium of Twitter, definitely check out Tweetment, created by Yaron Schoen (if you haven't discovered it already). Pretty cool stuff.

By: Teodoro Lopez

Teodoro Lopez — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:52:36 +0000

you know even tho I would really love for twitter to add this feature I might actually stick to positioning my background to the left, I guess I got used to it.

I do have to say I have seen many designers come up with some really kool ways to overcome the issue of not being able to center their design, for example, wufoo the more you expand the window the images seem to position themselves just right to alight with the feed box.

Just my thoughts. =D

P.S. TWITTER PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!

By: Boba

Boba — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:44:14 +0000

If it’s hard for them to make a little option where you select the bg to be centered, then they failed in the development process.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:57:13 +0000

Sure, we’re not asking for auto-play music and animated GIFs. This is a logical extension of an existing feature that I think will actually make it look less like Myspace (look at the pages of any tweeters or a trending topic) and more like a high-design environment.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:54:29 +0000

I’m so glad someone important is mentioning this! I’ve moaned about thi sbefore, but with my 35 followers, not made any impact, obviously! Surely something which runs down the centre of a page should be able to have a centred bcakground? Thanks Matt!

By: Sumeet Chawla

Sumeet Chawla — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:09 +0000

When I read the title of this post, I thought you found out someway of doing it lol…But anyhow, now that you have requested it, I sure do hope they implement it soon ^_^

By: James

James — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:12:25 +0000

Sometimes the easiest ideas are the best. This has to be one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments for someone at Twitter’s design team.

By: James Morrison

James Morrison — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:49:45 +0000

Makes sense, I’ve put together a background for a new layout on my site which is centred so would be useful to match the Twitter page.

By: Angela

Angela — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:18:13 +0000

Great suggestion. Wow, that would make design life so much easier.

By: Natán

Natán — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:54:43 +0000

By: Tom Hermans

Tom Hermans — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:32:42 +0000

Excellent suggestion.. and indeed, not that hard to implement imho..

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:06:32 +0000

Absolutely, I agree 110%. If Twitter is really serious about what they do, they will include this in their next release.

By: BJ Johnson

BJ Johnson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:44:24 +0000

I’d agree with this, although I make mine so that wherever the center panel is, the background image stops at the left edge and continues where it left off at the right.

What I’d REALLY like them to implement is different text and link colors for the main panel and the sidebar. Having to find mid-range text and link colors that aren’t too light for the white background and aren’t too dark for the color sidebar is just lame and annoying.

By: Nile

Nile — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:52:04 +0000

That would help a ton!

I think fixed backgrounds too.

Although, I am still wondering if Twitter might offer premier accounts, which I am more than willing to opt-in for extra stuff.

However, I do like this option and I think if you contacted Ev as someone suggested in another comment, it could become a possibility.

By: @heyart

@heyart — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:37:53 +0000

I’ve been saying this, literally, since day one.

What’s the stats of users accessing Twitter through the web versus mobile/API?

By: Evan

Evan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:11:07 +0000

While we’re talking about it they shouldn’t force you to use the same general text color as the sidebar text color. Why Twitter? WHY?!

Also I think that they compress background images sometimes. Maybe if you use a GIF or something. I remember trying something awhile ago and just gave up because twitter was screwing with my image.

But yeah they should totally have a drop down menu that lets you decide position and repeating of the graphic.

By: Mike Mueller

Mike Mueller — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:01:24 +0000

Matt – I don’t think anyone will argue with this (at least here). The best part of this is your thinking about how it would help a Twitter Design industry to flourish. Always thinking about helping others…
Kudos to you!

By: Garret Heaton

Garret Heaton — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:51:06 +0000

+1 (and +33 more here: http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/center_background_image)

By: hanny

hanny — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:38:58 +0000

aaaaa agreee!!! have been dabbled in trying to have a pretty background for my twitter acc., but never turned out as good as I want it to be -____-

By: Josh Betz

Josh Betz — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:27:01 +0000

+784

By: Matt Kempster

Matt Kempster — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:27:52 +0000

In a way I agree and in a way I don’t.

Twitter’s success has been based on simplicity. Simplicity on a site like Twitter comes from constraint.

Any more customisation options could just turn it into MySpace.