Recently I’ve had some trouble when making an attempt to change Twitter’s background image to a customized design. For whatever reason the image I’m trying to upload won’t stick. Try as I might it remains stubbornly as-is.
My whole theme will change—no problems—if I’m using a stock design.
Today I discovered a hack that will gets my image to stick every time. It’s pretty simple, but will save you from pulling out your hair if you run into the same problem.
- Log into Twitter
- Click Settings
- Click the Design tab
- Click Change Background Image
- Upload your file and…
- Tick the Tile Background checkbox (yes, even if you don’t want it tiled)
- Save.
- Now go back in and untick Tile Background and save again.
Given how fickle the twitter custom background seems to be with some folks (including me) I’m not sure this will be fail safe. But it’s worked for me several times in a row with no problems.
Thanks a mil Andrew =) Your workaround did the job!!
didn’t work for me…
it got the tiled version to work but
when i went back and unclicked tiled it disappeared.
Wow, thanks alot. How incredibly stupid of a problem this is though, why offer something if it doesnt work worth a shit.
Dude, you rock!!
I have been struggling with this for months, and this did the trick!
Cheers for that.
The real reason why this happens is because the background image you use, is not suitable to be used in for Web. And hence the best solution for this is to import the image on Photoshop (yes, you’ll need it), take the canvas size of your monitor resolution (Here’s how to find out – Control Panel > Display > Adjust Resolution), resize your image to be used as background and then save the image as “Save for Web & Devices” (Ctrl + Shift + Alt) and select the file type as JPEG, keeping rest of the settings as it is. Your file size will become incredibly low, plus, you dont have to go through these tactics!
Enjoy! :)
Supraket: Thanks for your suggestions. I actually do use Photoshop and am very familiar with ‘Save to Web’ feature—I believe this is a flaw on twitter’s side. I have seen, in some instances, traditional print designers simply do a ‘Save As…’ to JPG without doing a color conversion from CMYK to RGB which will give the recipient of the file a lot of grief when they try and open it.
By the way, I haven’t changed my background on twitter for some time now…is this still an issue with people?
But in any case, thanks for your input!