How to Make a Twitter Cover for Your App

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How to Make a Twitter Cover for Your App

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Having an effective Twitter cover image is a deal breaker when it comes to your social media strategy, but this isn't always that easy to accomplish. With this instructable, I'll tell you how to create a beautiful twitter cover using mockups from Placeit.

Step 1. Choose Your Template and Create Your Mockup

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Once you've browsed through the mockup templates available at placeit .net, choose the one that fits your product best and use it, it's simple. Just drag and drop a screenshot of your site/app onto the device. Or type your URL above and Placeit will take a screenshot for you

Step 2. ​Export Your Mockup to the Photo Editor

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Simply click “Add Effects” and choose to download the High or Super High version. The editor will open up when the download completes.

Step 3. Resize Your Image.

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Select a width of 1500 and height of 529 (we'll adjust this later on)

Step 4. Crop!

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Twitter covers are 1500x500px, so select the Crop icon and adjust to 500 height. A rectangle will appear, simply select the desired crop area. Click Apply.

Step 5. Save and Download

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You are done! Just click Save, then Download and an impressive .jpg will be downloaded on your computer so you will be able to upload it to Twitter.