Customizing your profile – Twitter

You can customize your profile by selecting unique profile and header images, adding a name, bio, location, birthday, website and theme color, and by pinning a Tweet that other users will see when they visit your profile.

How to customize your profile

1. Sign in to twitter.com.
2. Go to your profile.
3. Click the Edit profile btn and you’ll be able to edit your account’s:
   • Header photo (recommended dimensions are 1500×500 pixels)
   • Profile photo (recommended dimensions are 400×400 pixels)
   • Name
   • Bio (maximum 160 characters)
   • Location
   • Website
   • Theme color
   • Birthday
4. Click into any of these areas and make your changes.
5. When changing a profile or header photo, click the camera icon and select to Upload photo or Remove, or simply drag and drop a photo into this section.
6. Click Save changes. You’re all set!

Here are some additional tips for updating your profile:

• Photos can be in any of the following formats: JPG, GIF, or PNG. (Twitter does not support animated GIFs for profile or header images.)
• If you’re having trouble uploading a photo, check out this troubleshooting article.

How to add your birthday and select who can view it on your profile

You can customize your Twitter profile by adding your birthday. You can control who on Twitter can see your birthday on your profile by using your birthday visibility settings.

1. Sign in to twitter.com or open your iOS or Android app.
2. Go to your profile and click or tap the Edit profile btn.
3. Click or tap the Birthday section.
4. Select or change your birth Day, Month, and Year.
5. You can also review and change your birthday visibility settings. You will see two visibility settings, one to control visibility for your birthday year and the other to control visibility for your birthday month and day. Click a visibility icon (web) or adjust Who sees this (iOS or Android app) to change your settings. Learn more about your profile visibility settings here.
6. Click Save changes (web) or tap Done and then Save (iOS or Android app).

How do I remove my birthday from my profile?

You can remove your birthday from your profile by following the below steps:

1. Sign into twitter.com or open your iOS or Android app.
2. Go to your profile and click or tap the Edit profile btn.
3. Click the Birthday section.
4. Change the values you selected in each of the birthday dropdown menus back to the default values (e.g., “Day,” “Month,” and “Year”) (web) or tap Remove birthday (iOS or Android app). Note: to remove your birthday from your profile on the web, you will need to remove your information from all three of the birthday fields.
5. Click Save changes (web) or tap Done and then Save (iOS or Android app).

Pin a Tweet to your profile

You can pin a Tweet to your profile so that when others visit your profile, it is the first Tweet they will see.

To pin a Tweet:

1. Go to your profile.
2. Find the Tweet you’d like to pin and click the more icon ••• (web and iOS app) or the share icon  (Android app). In your iOS or Android app, you can also long-press the pinned Tweet to access the menu.
3. Select Pin to your profile page.
4. Click or tap Pin.

To unpin a Tweet:

1. Go to your profile page.
2. Find the Tweet you’d like to pin and click the more icon ••• (web and iOS app) or the share icon  (Android app). In your iOS or Android app, you can also long-press the pinned Tweet to access the menu.
3. Click or tap Unpin from profile page.
4. Click or tap Unpin.