What is the size of the Twitter profile photo?

This question looks deceivingly simple. Actually I had spent a better part of the hour trying to fit in the company logo to the space allocated for. There are two sizes to look out for in Twitter: the bigger profile photo, and the smaller icon displayed beside your Tweet (and this gets even smaller if viewed on small screens i.e. mobile phones). For convenience I Google for an answer and came up with 73x73px for the bigger profile photo. It seems, though, that this is no longer the case. The new size is 128x128px based on my measurement. I tried using 73px square for the logo and on the profile page, it looked small compared with the arrangement of the Twitter name and description beside it. The smaller icon is also something to look out for, as it resizes the photo into 48x48px (too small to recognize the details in the logo). I may be violating all sorts of marketing guidelines on how to display the logo for consistency purposes and so I chose to display a photo instead. And that is when I discovered the change in the Twitter profile photo size. So that's it. Try for 128x128 for the profile photo, and check how it looks like on the smaller version. It's a bit of trial and error, actually. Enjoy.

Link Facebook to Twitter, and other link-ups

This is old news I know, but in case you are still not aware of it, this may be a good thing to have for your social media efforts.

Twitter how-to

Today's the third time in a month that I searched for instructions on setting up Twitter for the mobile phone, so I thought I might as well place it here so it will be easier to retrieve next time!

Create an account by SMS

1. Send a text message to 8987 (TWTR)* with the word START
   8987 is the code for New Zealand.  Telecom provider 2 Degrees might not yet support Twitter.
2. Twitter will send you a reply and ask you to reply with the word 'SIGNUP' to create a new account. Send 'SIGNUP'.
3. Next, Twitter will ask you to pick a username. Your username must be unique and less than 15 characters, with no spaces or special characters (underscore is the only exception). Reply with the username you want.
   
   If the username is taken, Twitter will give you three attempts to select a unique one.
   
   If you're out of ideas, Twitter will suggest and assign you an alternate username. If you want a new one later, it's easy to visit Twitter.com and change your username from the web settings.
   
4. You will get a confirmation message when you pick a unique username (Twitter will tell you to pick a new name if someone else has the username you wanted).
5. Choose a password.
6. You're all set! Send a message and it will post as your first Tweet.

Set-up your Web Profile

• Simply go to www.twitter.com and click Sign in, then click Already using Twitter on your phone?
• Read our article about accessing your web profile for more information.

Share an image on Twitter

This screenshot says it all :-)