Twitter Image is Now Social Identities

For those of you who don’t know, I own and operate a website called TwitterImage.com. When this whole crazy thing started a short time ago, we (Twitter Image) began by designing backgrounds for Twitter, but as we grew, we added more social networks and now design backgrounds and custom graphics not only for Twitter, but for Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Ning and every social network page that can be customized. This led us to begin searching for a way to segue to a new name that encompassed all that we do and not only Twitter specifically, so we registered and began using the domain, SocialIdentities.com.

Enter the fine folks from Twitter.

Although we had begun to use SocialIdentities.com as a landing page that redirected visitors to our individual websites, we were still using the name Twitter Image for our primary website. However, a few days ago we received an email from Twitter asking us to stop using the name Twitter Image as they felt it created some confusion and some people may have assumed that our site was operated by Twitter… even though we do not use any design elements or colors that should have created any visual inference that this was the case.

So, since we have no wish to rock the boat and considering that Twitter did agree to let us continue using the word Twitter in our domain — as long as it did not appear in front — we have changed the URL of our site to CustomBackgroundsForTwitter.com and have Twitter’s blessing to use that URL. However, although that URL will be great for SEO, it’s too long to be of any realistic use for branding, so we will use the name Social Identities in the logo of our site. It will be possible to get to our website from either SocialIdentities.com or CustomBackgroundsForTwitter.com.