How to Create a Unique Twitter Background With Twilk

I was checking out people to follow on Twitter when I came across a profile in which the background featured thumbnail images of the person’s followers.

How’d they do that? I wondered.

Turns out they used Twilk.com, a free, Web-based application.

Twilk (which is a combination of Twitter and milk—because its creator likes milk), works like this:

1.  Sign in with your Twitter account to give the Twilk application access to your account.

2.  Configure your settings.

You can generate images of people you follow, people who follow you, both following and followers, or people you follow who follow you back. You can display the photos small, medium, or large; in black & white or color; and as 2 columns or as a full background.

Here’s a preview I generated of a full background with medium-sized images:

And here’s a preview of large images in the Confetti style:

3. Once you’ve decided which preview you like best, click “Use Background,” and Twilk will automatically install your chosen background to your Twitter account.

Just for fun, I installed a Twilk background on the Twitter account of the Florida Christian Writers Conference (one of our clients). I think it’s a neat way to display images of people who attend the conference.

Twilk’s FAQs say that the more you interact with someone, the more prominently they are positioned. People are sorted by how much you mention their user name (@ replies, retweets, etc. ) in your Twitter feed. It starts in the first two columns on the left, from top to bottom, left, right, left, right. If you mention people the same amount (or not at all), the order of those people will be random.

With the free version of Twilk, you need to manually update your background at Twilk.com. You can remove the background image at any time via the design tab in your Twitter account settings.

If you want your background updated automatically every day, you can sign up for a paid subscription to Twilk, which costs $5/month. Extra features with the paid version include:

• No Twilk Ad: the Twilk logo won’t show up on your background
• Daily Auto-Updates: save time by letting us update your background for you
• Upload Custom Logo: to have your background stand out and look more professional
• Exclude People: if you don’t want competitors showing up
• Feature People: to show how much they mean to you

If you decide to give Twilk a whirl, include your Twitter username in the Comments area of this post, and we’ll check you out!

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