Twitter background images have become an important part of user profiles. Background images really help users build their own brand. On limited platform like twitter, backgrounds are the best way to communicate a little out of the box.

Twitter also offers some delicate simple background designs for all user profiles. But if you are to establish your personal brand, add some more contact info, personal expressions, pictures, and other important links to your profile then creating your own Twitter background image is the best way.

One way is to spend some good time while creating these backgrounds, where you can best utilize it if you happen to be a good user of designing tools. But if you are not familiar with how to use design tools or do not want to spend time creating one, this HOW TO Guide is for you. We can get such pre-built background from many resources growing each and every day. These resources offer free, and self-customizable paid backgrounds which are pretty easy to use and usually are installed direct from these websites.

In case you decide to build your own background image for twitter, there are few things you must know. Your background image should be large enough not to tile when installed on your twitter profile. To achieve this, the total image size should be around 1600px wide by 1200px tall. Also, if you build a left-hand column, make sure that it covers the central Twitter content.

Here is a list of websites which can help you:

1. TwitterBakcs : Twitter back provides you a big number of free and paid background images. They also allow you to download customizable templates in PSD format. They are also my personal favorites; can you guess which twitterback theme is installed on my twitter profile?
2. TweetStyle : Tweetstyle offers free custom twitter backgrounds.
3. MyTweetSpace : This site is offering cool themes and Twitter profile badges for free. If you want a highly personalized Twitter profile promoting your product or brand, you have to pay a minimal amount.
4. Twitter Background Images: Big Cool collection of twitter background images.
5. KillerTweets : offers some of the coolest Twitter backgrounds. When we say cool we mean, the gothic-artsy-kind of cool. And it’s relatively cheap as well at $9.
6. TwitBacks : They offer an tool for creating background images. This one specializes in left-hand column-based background images.

There are many websites who are offering such free and paid services, but we are listing just a few good of them. If you know some more good sites, please do add to comments.