Wallpapers Deleted by Twitter

This week Twitter removed users’ customized backgrounds and replaced them with a simple off-white background.

Social media is a tool for branding yourself, many users felt that personalized backgrounds on Twitter were a form of self-branding. Now, background images are only available on Tweet pages, list pages and collections pages, according to Twitter.

Many Twitter users are upset that the option of creating a customized background is now gone. But there are more ways to build your brand, whether it is a personal brand or a company’s brand, on social media other than customizing the background of your twitter page.

To build your brand on social media be sure to post frequently, interact with other users, catch the attention of influencers, use the social media sites that your audience uses and post valuable and shareable content. Doing these things on social media will display your brand in an interactive way that is much more effective than displaying your brand in a stagnant background image.

Pluto brings NASA to headlines

A mission that has taken more than nine years brought NASA to headlines across the globe this week for the first time in a long time.

The New Horizons Spacecraft achieved the first ever flyby of Pluto and sent photographic evidence back to Earth. This long mission will continue on until the spacecraft runs out of power around the year 2030. We can only imagine the other spectacular images the spacecraft will send to us during the remainder of its mission.

This headlining mission is a great example of how long the placing process of media coverage can take. Although NASA had the luxury of creating their own timeline, getting your story published involves patience, persistence and perfect timing. If you’re wanting to place a story, press release or guest blog post, be willing to dig deep, think hard and be mindful. Good things come to those who wait.