Another trick to make a good looking twitter custom page is that they show the pictures really tiny, and most photos don’t hold up.

One solution for that is to put your color picture of your face on your profile, because on their first visit this gives them the human aide. But for the icon, which will be real small, and which they will generally only see after they’ve visited the first time and formed their first, human-based impression, one way to make the icon work is to pick a black and white picture that will hold up in small sizes. (Color can, but black and white can be clearer, because human eyes are more sensitive to low light in black in white.)

If you review my two pages, you’ll see that the background image is my face, in color, and it’s fairly large. When I went to find my image for the repeating icon, in both cases I chose black and white, and specifically went through different images, making them small to see if they’d be recognizable in very small sizes (73×73, 48×48, and one even smaller!)

In every case, cropping tightly on a simple black and white image worked better.