Background images will only be visible where logged-in users can see them publicly, such as the detailed view for a tweet and on list pages.
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Many Twitter users uploaded custom background images to the site.
The background image service that allowed you to set customized images as backgrounds for your Twitter profile page has now been removed, replacing the previous user selected images with a neutral shade of light blue. The help text for customising profiles has also changed to state that “other than your theme color, your design theme will not be visible on your profile or Home timeline”.
Of course, Twitter users aren’t particularly pleased by this change and have been expressing their displeasure ever since.
Needless to say, users are furious.
According to Mashable, this new white-centric design isn’t entirely new.
If you log into your Twitter account on the web today, you will notice something new. It is possible that it could begin selling full-page background adverts to companies, using your profile to promote new products.
Currently, there is no way to get the background back to its artistic genius that it previously was, but Twitter provides some relief by confirming that it still appears in some places like behind individual tweets or topic-based lists and pages.
Twitter used to let you put whatever imagery you wanted up as the background on every Twitter page you surfed on. But after clicking around the site a little, the background or colour will disappear again.
You can change the background image settings for these areas of Twitter from the website’s main settings menu under the “Design” tab in the left column.
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Updated at 5:50 p.m. PT with context on Twitter’s last redesign of user profiles.
