How can I change the look of my Twitter page?

Ah, Twitter. Yes, there's no better way to communicate with your "possé" and there's also no better way to learn the trivial details of the live of hundreds of people who aren't your friends, but to whom you're loosely (albeit digitally) connected.

Truth be told, however, it's really quite addictive and I now follow almost 100 people on Twitter, mostly my good friends, but also some news feeds (CNN breaking news, for example) and relatively random folk who just have interesting things to say.

Anyway, it's pretty easy to change your background and colors on your Twitter page, if you know how to wind through their site.

Step #1 is to notice that on the navigational bar on the top right of your Twitter page is a link called "Settings":

Click on "Settings" and you'll see the main window changes to your primary profile settings and offers some additional options:

Click on "Design" and you'll see the design center:

Instead of you having "Use the Twitter default style" selected, instead choose "Use my custom style below". Now you can specify a background image that's a photograph, sketch, or, as I have, a pattern.

Tip: If you want to get your own background pattern, I strongly suggest that you simply Google "download free background graphic tile seamless" and see what you can find. That's where mine came from.

You can also change the basic colors on the page too: I changed the background color of the sidebar to match the purple pattern, from light green to light blue.

Finally, when you're happy with the changes you've made, click on "Save" then go back to your default Twitter home page to see the results.

Cool, eh?