Twitter backgrounds capture and tell a lot about a twitter profile. Whether it’s about you, your company, your band, your course, or your cause. Backgrounds can set tones, change minds, intrigue and put off.
We’ve been instructed to pick a compelling and interesting background for our twitter profiles. Whether stock or custom designed, here are 14 twitter background sites for you to shop for a twitter background.
Yes, I know, I still have to work on mine. 
TechCrunch recently sat down and interviewed Biz Stone, co-founder of twitter. Here are two videos from that interview.
So how come you can only send messages that are no longer than 140 characters? The 140 character limitation for twitter messages comes from the length of text messages cell phones send and receive.
In twitter, the 140 character message limitation was set because there is a 160 character, SMS message limitation that exists for cell phones. SMS stands for Short Message Service. Twitter reserves 20 characters for your username. That’s why there’s 140 character limitation for a twitter message.
Today is Memorial Day in the United States and here’s a list of 10 tweets honoring those who have died while in military service, as well as those who serve and have served.
Here’s a YouTube video from commoncraft called Twitter in Plain English that they did in March 2008. This is a great video that helps explain what twitter is and where it resides in your social networking tools. Enjoy.
So there’s a lot of folks out there who think twitter sucks, is stupid, they don’t get it, it’s a waste of time, facebook is much better, this and that social network is better than twitter, etc., etc.
