Twitter killing your custom background says you’re dust in a galaxy of ads

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by Sindy Cator on July 21, 2015 at 10:16 am

There’s another big expanse of screen real estate up for grabs on Twitter. For a long time, it was where you could put a custom wallpaper behind your profile. But now, the social network has killed that in favour of plain blue. Twitter killing custom profile backgrounds is a) getting read to plaster ads there b) saying users' individuality counts for squat. — Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) July 21, 2015 Does that matter? Surely it’s just trivial right? You could argue – and I’m sure Twitter would – that it’s simply about consistency. Facebook has always limited profile customisation, desperate to…