Did your Twitter wallpaper just disappear?

Twitteratis on Tuesday  faced  a peculiar problem. The micro-blogging site's customised wallpaper was missing and replaced by a plain grey background.

"We are removing background images from the home and notifications timelines on web for all users. Now, background images are only available where logged-in users will see them publicly (Tweet pages, list pages and collections pages)," a Twitter spokesperson told Engadget.

Twitter users were until now allowed to change the background image on their profile, which also showed up as their wallpaper elsewhere on Twitter's website.