10 Noteworthy Twitter Landing Pages
What is a Twitter Landing Page? Why create one?
Twitter presents many people to you in a stream; you are given one link in your profile to make a presentation. Some professionals develop a unique Twitter Landing Page to introduce themselves to new people. To learn more:
- ProBlogger: Develop a Twitter Landing Page
- Unbounce: What is a Twitter Landing Page?
And here are ten pages that I found noteworthy:
Glenn Hilton
Glenn Hilton's Twitter Landing Page
Glenn Hilton’s page features a large graphic with a photo in the upper left corner that changes upon refresh and a Twitter-like look. He explains his use of Twitter, and he has a comment form at the bottom.
Meryl K. Evans
Meryl K. Evans Twitter Landing Page
Meryl K. Evans uses her page to give a basic introduction to herself. The main graphic on the page is her logo – the other eye-catching elements are the subscribe buttons – clearly, she wants you to come back and read more!
Eric Hall
EH Design Twitter Landing Page
What I like about Eric’s page is his photo: it’s warm and welcoming. Makes one feel comfortable approaching him to do business. Under the company logo he has a search box, giving one the opportunity to find out more in an easy fashion.
Joanna Young
Confident Writing Twitter Landing Page
Joanna’s photo of an orange umbrella surrounded by many gray umbrellas with “Power up your words and find your writing voice” catches my eye. Yes, the image does exude confidence.
Leah Jones
Leah Jones' Twitter Landing Page
The Twitter landing page of Leah Jones has one big image – her company logo. On this page we learn about “phatic communication” and how she wanted to hate Twitter when she started.
Matthew Lyle
I like the black-and-white sophistication (matched with monochrome photo) and clarity of Matthew’s page.
Beth Kanter
Beth Kanter's Twitter Landing Page
Beth’s page features both a smiling, friendly photo of herself as well as an action photo, showing her presenting. The page has a multitude of information and links to more about non-profits in general.
Heidi Cool
Heidi Cool's Twitter Landing Page
Heidi welcomes readers to her page, explains her web development business and social media philosophy, and tells her Twitter following policy. The main imagery is her photo, which has a black background, as does the background of her site.
Laura Fitton
Laura Fitton's Twitter Landing Page
Laura uses a lot of icon imagery on her Twitter Landing Page. The background is basic white, and the yellows of her books on the right stand out against the abundant use of the sky blue color on her page. Her attractive photo, with its dark brown background, is in the upper left, a place one’s eye usually looks first.
Leora Wenger
Leora Wenger's Twitter Landing Page
Finally, here is my page – I emphasized imagery and design with just enough text to relay the message. Plenty of links to click on this page if you want to find out more.
Thank you to Debra Askanase and Nedra Weinrich for suggesting some of these pages.
Upcoming Posts – Your Input Wanted
Do you have a page on your website (or on a friend’s) that you feel is noteworthy? Feel free to include the link in the comments.
Nice work digging out all those examples Leora.
Thanks, glad you liked it. The “unbounce” article was helpful in explaining what this was all about.
Thanks for including my page! A twitter landing page is a must-have. These are all good examples.
Matt, sure thing! Glad you liked the other examples, too.
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Thanks for the mention of my page, Leora. You have some great examples.
I find that I get a good amount of traffic to my landing page. It’s a definite must have.
Thanks again.
Eric, thanks for the confirmation that a twitter landing page is an important asset. When I searched in Google, I was surprised that no one has done a similar roundup of landing pages.
Thanks for the mention Leora. Much appreciated. I like how you’ve simplified your landing page with visuals tied to a phrase of text. It makes it easier to quickly scan and find the info you’re looking for. :)
Thanks for the comment on my Twitter Landing Page! Yes, the idea for my page was “Less is More” – trying to use minimal text and give the user options in a visually-appealing manner.
Hi Leora,
I really love what you’ve done with this idea – looked at it from a design perspective rather than a social media or marketing text perspective. As for your page – I think the smiling photo of you is warm and welcoming, while the graphic simplicity is welcoming and decreases barriers to entry. In other words, I love it! May you have many happy landings :)
Debra, thanks for your help when I was sending out tweets asking if anyone had a twitter landing page…I was surprised how few people have them.
Glad you like my page!
Great collection Leora, and thanks for including mine! It’s interesting to see the different ways people are both using and presenting these pages. While we all have different content, each gets to the heart of showing what we’re about so that people can learn more and/or decide if we’re worth following on Twitter. (Such pages often help me when deciding if I should follow someone.)
Eric’s comment inspired me to check my Google Analytics to see how that page was performing. I was happy to see it has a bounce rate of only 43% so I guess that shows how such a page can bring visitors in to explore more.
Cheers!
“…inspired me to check my Google Analytics to see how that page was performing.”
Great suggestion, Heidi! This is one way of knowing whether such a page is a help.
Nice list! I like Matt’s page its informative and has links to other articles etc so its quite effective in making someone go through his site!
I bet Matt will be happy to read that!
Thanks Leora! :) I find free good twitter backgrounds here, check:
custombackgroundsfortwitter.com/gallery/category/free/
Leora, Thanks A lot for sharing this list. I absolutely loved these websites and had to thank you!
A twitter landing page is a great idea, and I really like Matts black and white page. Very effective.
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Thanks for sharing all the Twitter landing pages. It gives me some great ideas on how to make my landing page more effective. Much Aloha.
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I guess a good twitter landing page can be your Google profile page. It has all the information along with your blog URLs, websites plus posts that you have buzzed.
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Wow, thanks for sharing this list.. I’m trying this on my twitter. Nice job!
hi leora,
Firstly, i sincerely appreciate your blog post, it
is definitely informative for me.
I have gone through the websites you have listed,
especially like the landing page that is from Matthew Lyle
Thanks again
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Very interesting list. I think you should add dell’s twitter landing page to your link :)
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Alicia, yes, Dell does do a nice job on their Twitter landing page. Lots of options related to community and social media, and they show you some of the employees as well.