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by lifeisstillgood 4991 days ago
I am going to have to channel patio11 here - the Perfect Twitter Profile Page is one that supports your Twitter goals and is proven to do so with empirical testing.

What are your online goals? How do you measure them? Now how on earth does a twitter home page help that? If Facebook pages for major brands are one step removed then twitter home pages are a long down the road towards the shops.

If your tweet goes viral and most people then go to your twitter homepage, instead of that embedded URL, something is badly wrong

frankly your twitter homepage irrelevant - it's a 140 character broadcast service with no relevant interactivity on yr homepage - make it blank, put up a picture - if it is more than one hours work for the same designer who did your real home page then it's too long

Edit: curiously their own twitter page is my ideal - simple, clearly states who and what and links right into their main online presence - which fwiw is very funky.

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Thanks for the compliments on our Twitter profile design!

Completely agreed re: your Twitter page (and any other marketing channel) needing to serve your business objectives.

As quality design is one factor in establishing trust in a brand, we feel that when brands get something so basic as layout of their Twitter profile wrong, it warrants a nod and perhaps a nudge, which is what this post is intended to be.