It is important to change your background so it is not the default Twitter page. If you leave it as one of the standard twitter choices you are missing opportunity to set yourself apart from others. Remember that many users still manually look at each person to determine if they will follow back or not. Distinguish yourself from the crowd, attract more followers, and appear professional.Your background can be packed with a lot of additional information to tell more about you. You can add information that promotes much more than you can add to your bio.If you are a graphics guru, then you can do your own background. Create a professional background with all of your information and upload it to your profile. If you are graphically challenged or simply want to save time, there are some helpful resources to help you with your twitter background. Simply Google “twitter backgrounds” and you will find quite a few sites offering this service for free. Here are a couple that I have tried with success Twitbacs has some great backgrounds and has some of the source files if you want to tweak our background.Search Flickr for twitter backgrounds to find some resources. Be sure you check the license before using someone’s work.Twitrbackgrounds has many to choose from and can create a custom background for you

There are really only two basic types of Tweets. Replies (also called @mentions) or retweets.@Mention or RepliesYou can reply to someone’s Tweet simply by putting the @symbol in front of their name. For example, “@HolyWebMaker, your blog is awesome!” This makes the tweet appears in their reply page instead of in the general Tweetstream. This is a great way to start conversations with people and establish relationships. Simply comment on one of their tweets or mention something you read on their blog. Many of the Twitter client applications make this simple.RetweetingPeople appreciate retweets and it is a good way to get noticed by others. All you do is put RT in front of the @username. Separate their tweet from your comment if you have one. A common practice is to put two pipes “||” in between their comment and yours (if you can make it fit)If other people retweet your tweets, make it a habit to thank them. It’s common courtesy. Simply tweet @username Thanks for RT :-) and send.