You can not only have your latest flickr image as twitter background but let it automatically update every time you upload a picture to your flickr account.

Most of the bloggers, internet marketers and even celebrities have started tweeting and you need no other reason to join twitter. If you are not there in twitter, you are missing something. Join twitter right now. And don’t forget to add me.

Twitter backgrounds are to decorate your profile and make it look good. It will sometimes convince people to follow you. If you are using a default twitter background, it is time to change.

Before letting you know the service that allows you to have your latest flickr image as twitter background, I’ll point out some reasons why you should have a good flickr background (but you can always scroll down to see the service).

1. Convinces the twitter users, who have decided not to follow you, to follow you (at times)

2. Gives an exciting, scintillating, dazzling, brilliant, and amusing plus “enter all the synonyms here” twitter background. (Of course, only if you have that kind of a picture in flickr)

3. Attract designers and photographers

4. Fresh background everyday (if you upload a picture everyday)

And a lot more…

What is the service I am talking about?

It is Flickr my background. It is a service started by sawhorse whose other projects include the famous shorty awards.

1. Go to Flickr my background page

2. Fill the details they ask you

3. Validate your flickr account

4. Go to your twitter homepage and see the latest flickr image being shown as your twitter background

It is as simple as that.

If you want to stop using flickr my background, go their website and see at the bottom where they say “click here to stop updating your twitter background”.

Now you have a constantly changing twitter background.

Follow me on twitter here.

There are many twitter applications and twitter firefox addons in the web. Though twitter applications are used more than twitter firefox addons, there are quite a few firefox extensions for twitter that you could use, which will make tweeting fun.

Instant Tweets is the twitter firefox addon that makes tweeting fun. It is developed by Ben Clemons and Josh Fulfer. I installed the firefox extension yesterday and it seems like a lot of fun.

So what’s good about Instant Tweets?

Instant tweet uses your firefox address bar to type and send tweets. You can type anything you want in the address bar and send it as a tweet. It also shows how many characters are left in the tweet.

You can also tweet the current page links in two ways:

1. Simply click the bird icon in your address bar
2. Right click your mouse and choose “Tweet Current Page”

You can also tweet images using Instant Tweets. Simply right click the image you want to tweet and choose “Tweet this pic”.

One another feature that I like about Instant tweets is that you can know whether a person is following you or not. The Blue bird icon in the address bar turns RED when you are on the Twitter Profile of someone who is NOT following you. If it is BLUE, then the person is following you.

Instant Tweets is compatible with Firefox 2 and 3.

Grab the twitter addon for firefox here or download it directly from here. Visit the instant tweets home page to see a video tutorial of how this extension works

Add me on twitter here.