If the eyes are the windows of the soul, your Twitter picture is the window of your account. Sort of. To see what I mean, check out the list of Twitterers shown in figure 2.3 (this is a list of the people a particular account is following). See the picture in the lower right corner? That's the generic image that Twitter displays when a user hasn't taken the time to choose his or her own picture.
Of course, no one's going to put a gun to your head to force you to put up your own picture, but that generic image is rather lame, and it tells folks that you haven't got your act
2.3 The image in the lower right corner is what Twitter displays when an account has no picture set up.
together enough to spend the couple of minutes that it takes to set your own picture. Even better, choosing your own picture is a chance to have a bit of fun. Most Twitterers use simple head shots of themselves, but a large percentage use something else entirely: a cartoon character, a caricature, an animal, a logo, or whatever. Feel free to let your imagination run a bit wild here.
Once you've settled on an image that suits your style, follow these steps to add it to your profile:
1. Sign in to your Twitter account.
2. Click Settings. The Settings page appears.
3. Click the Picture tab.
4. Click Browse. If you're using Safari, click Choose File, instead. A file selection dialog box appears.
5. Choose the file you want to use, and then click Open (or Choose in Safari). You can use either a JPEG or a PNG file, and the maximum size is 700KB.
6. Click Save. Twitter updates your profile with the new image.
Although you might think you need to use a tiny image for Twitter, you can load a larger image if you want. Twitter shrinks it down to size in your profile, but folks can
click the image to see it full-size.
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