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When you logged on to Twitter today did you notice something different but couldn’t quite put your finger on what?
Well the answer is your background image has gone.
The social media site is removing all custom background images as part of a plan to make the site easier to understand, with custom images now only showing up on certain pages – for example, those that show a single tweet.
Users can still have a background, but only one of the pre-approved Twitter ones that you can see in the Settings menu, under Design.
To make Twitter clearer, the site has moved to make pages less busy, with the eye drawn to the tweets and other information on screen, rather than the artsy image sat behind them.
However, the move hasn’t gone down too well with users of the service.
@twitter give me my background back, thanks
— alice (@trosivan) July 21, 2015
Why does twitter keep taking my background away?
— netmeg (@netmeg) July 21, 2015
I miss my twitter yoga background :(
— Justine Daniel (@Trinijdee) July 21, 2015
Hey, @twitter! Can we please have our backgrounds back? This gray crap feels like the gray tunics in a YA dystopia.
— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) July 21, 2015
"How did the internet war start, Grandma?" "Well, Tommy, on the hottest night of summer, they quietly removed our Twitter backgrounds…"
— Rita Meade (@ScrewyDecimal) July 21, 2015
@Twitter don't lie. You are not stripping backgrounds to make it "easier to use." You're doing it so you can put ads in there.
— LICH KING DEMARCO (@Clarknova1) July 21, 2015
Wtf did they really get rid of personal backgrounds on twitter feeds?
— Paulina Ganucheau (@PlinaGanucheau) July 20, 2015
So Twitter has decided to change all the profiles to a white background, the same thing Myspace did right before they went down in flames!
— DW Sin (@DW_Sin_) July 20, 2015
The revolution has already started however, with a Chrome plug-in already surfacing on Github from a coder in Germany called The Twitter Background Restorer.
