Thread by @renkiger_

[Rebuild]
Thread of @BTS_twt twitter layouts over the yrs, from oldest to newest
Baby Bangtan🥺💜
1. Only 1000 followers (reached on 2013.02.11 cr: @/codus0123(IA)
2. 2000 followers
3. & 4. Source of 2000 follower pic: BTS (2013.03.31) pretending they had 20k ‘check your glasses’

1. Extra: @BTS_twt (Yoongi) was rly excited to reach 2,222 followers and he promised a gift to fans once they did
2. Extra: He twt’d @ BangPD about it on 2013.04.06😂
3. BTS reached 2,222 followers the next day: 2013.04.07 (and posted the song Dream Money to Bangtan’s SoundCloud)

1. Extra: 2013.05.19 @BTS_twt unveiled their first logo
2. First update of twt layout pfp + header (reached 3000 followers 2013.05.21)
3. 2013.05.26 added “Hi! We’re BANGTAN~!” as 1st bio🥺
4. Extra: Generally won’t incl other SNS accts but 1st YT & Fancafe layouts from 05/2013😭

1. Debut Bangtan: updated their twt pfp with 2 Cool 4 Skool concept photo (~27,000 followers as of 2013.06.18). Also changed their bio to: “Hi! We’re BTS!” and added blog link
2. On 2013.07.04, 28 days after debut, BTS reached 50,000 followers
3. Skool Luv Affair era

1 & 2. @BTS_twt 2014 April Fools layout changes
3. Extra pic: the drawing of Yoongi (with that hair) that they used as one of their April 1 profile pics

Dark & Wild era twt layouts:

1. Pre Concept Photos layout
2. Update after concept photos released
3. @BTS_twt reached 500k followers!
4. @bts_bighit's D&W era layout (generally I won't include these in the thread bc it's really really long already)

1. Twitter profile change with the Red Bullet Tour
2 & 3. Some of their 2015 @BTS_twt April Fools layout changes
4. Dust settled, back to previous layout

Extra pics: @bts_bighit 2015 April Fools epic changes and (some of the) posts for the @BTS_twt Secret Service "Independent International Intelligence and Handsome Secret Agency for You" photoshoot

1. Red Bullet Tour ends with 820k followers.

@BTS_twt HYYH begins:

2. New header for The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Part 1 (updated 2015.04.17)
3. HYYH Part 1 layout with concept photo update
4. 990k followers right before they changed their twt profile again

1. Dope layout with concept pics (at 999.9k!)
2. @BTS_twt hits their first 1M followers (2015.06.22)
3. Hobi posted his first ‘Million Follower Milestone/Million series’ edit
4. @bts_bighit's Dope layout and the Fancafe layout, because they were pretty great and I like them

1. @BTS_twt HYYH The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt.2
2. & 3. HYYH Pt.2 (diff SS) & up to 1.5M followers
4. With concept pic update and BTS reached 2M followers!(2016.03.17)

1. Different screenshot of @BTS_twt reaching 2M followers
2. Hobi posted a 2M follower milestone edit!
3. & 4. Extra pics: BTS did a VLive celebrating reaching 2M followers and talked about that old photoshop tweet where they pretended 2000 followers were 20,000🥺

Lots of @BTS_twt twitter profile changes for April Fools’ 2016... LaserMan! Busan Boys! Sopme! Jhorse! (continued...)

Even more @BTS_twt twitter layout and profile changes from 2016 April Fools. Jin and Joon. Tibetmon. And All. The. Llamas.

1. The dust settled & BTS changed their pfp to a group shot of them at ISAC (filmed in Jan 2016, broadcast in Feb 2016) & changed their header x2. They settled on a pic of them at the end of 2nd Muster: Zip Code
Extras:
1. pfp
2. first header, soon changed again
3. final header

Extras:
1. @bts_bighit also changed their header to a stage pic from 2nd muster
2. The full stage pic
3. Poster for 2nd Muster, because I like it
4. (Random, but the official IG was kinda nice, and hit 1M in this era. Also, wasn’t even verified yet🧐)

1. Young Forever begins for BTS with (only) 2.1 M followers the day Epilogue: Young Forever MV is released🥺
2. @BTS_twt layout with concept photo profile pic update
3. I liked this era's @bts_bighit layout
4. BTS reached 2.5M followers right before changing their twt profile

Extra: The BTS Fancafe layout for Young Forever was stunning

1. BTS changes their header to a pic of them in NY (2016.06.24)
2. Extra: @BTS_twt’s tweet with the group pics
3. Reach 3M followers Sept 2016
4. Hobi's sparta edit for 3M

Wings era begins:
1. & 2. pre concept photo release comeback layouts of @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit
3. & 4. Layouts after the concept photos🥵

1. @BTS_twt reach 4M followers Dec 2016 & Hobi posted another one of his million series edits
2. BTS change their profile pic after winning Album of the Year at the 2016 Melon Music Awards their very first daesang award🥺
3. Extra: how the pfp was taken (from the BTS episode)

1. @BTS_twt layout change for You Never Walk Alone comeback using both concept pics: pfp (version 2) and header (version 1)
2. @bts_bighit’s layout
3. Extra: BTS’ header pic because it’s a fave of mine

1., 2. & 3. April Fools Day 2017 @BTS_twt layout changes - lots! Including legendary ‘I’m tipsy’ Tae post
4. Dust settled & BTS picked a Run!BTS grp pic as new pfp (shot around xmas/New Years) & a header pic from start of Wings Tour in Seoul holding ARMYs' banners (from Feb 2017)

1. & 2. Extras: BTS’ Wings tour header and ugly helmets pfp 😂
3. @BTS_twt reaches 5M followers and Hobi posts another million series edit
4. Layout change with a new profile pic group photo from their boat trip during Bon Voyage 2 in Hawaii🥺

1. Layout change with a new header for BTS’ first time at the Billboard Music Awards (May 2017)
2. @BTS_twt reached 6M followers shortly after their first BBMAs
3. Hobi posted another of his edits🥰☀️

1. & 2. @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit layout changes for the new BTS logo launch...the TL was an excited hilarious MESS
🤪🤪🤪🤣

3. & 4. BTS reached 7M followers in July 2017 and Hobi posted another edit

Love Yourself era begins!💜

1. Layout change for Love Yourself: Her, (before concept photos)
2. @BTS_twt profile pic update after all concept photo previews released (version L)
3. & 4. BTS reached 8M followers and Hobi posted another million series edit ⛄️🌸 (2017.09.07)

1. & 2. The rate BTS was gaining followers picked up. BTS passed 8M, 9M, 10M, AND 11M during LY:H. They also changed their short bio again & again😂

3. Hobi posted an edit for the 9M milestone (2017.10.17)…and that was the last. But, all members tweeted special gifs for 10M🥰

1. Screenshot of @BTS_twt reaching 10M

2. The 10M gifs (as a pic montage to save space)

3. Also adding in @bts_bighit’s layout for LY:H, because it was stunning🤩😍

4. BTS ended 2016 with 4M followers, they gained ~7M in 2017, ending the year with ~11M

So many @BTS_twt layout changes for April Fools 2018!

1. Yoongi’s sugar cubes (plus he had a brilliant sugar cane field pic post abt missing his ‘hometown');
2. Lee Hyun (with bio change to his newest song)
3. RJ;
4. Jin…
continued

Poor PDogg and BangPD…2018 April Fools @BTS_twt had no mercy😂
Also, this was the year of Jimin’s legendary (fake) portal news story link about Namjoon and Jin

The chaos ended with @BTS_twt updating their twitter layout to a group profile pic from their Dec 2017 MAMA Mic Drop performance and a shot of them on stage in the middle of a purple ARMY bomb ocean at 4th Muster (from January 2018) as the new header🥺💜

The surprise (brief) layout change for Love Yourself: Wonder (April 2018) for @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit - and basically a blink later they were gone…

1. & 2. Love Yourself: Tear layout change pre concept photo release (night and day mode for those who care)

3. Love Yourself: Tear pfp change with concept photo version O

1. @BTS_twt Love Yourself: Answer layout change pre concept photo release (the gradient colours were beautiful)

2. & 3. BTS pfp update for Love Yourself: Answer with concept photo version F
4. @bts_bighit’s layout because it was a bit less…jarring(?) than BTS’?

It was chaos...the TL, user @BTS_twt...Jin cult... There was just A LOT going on for Jin’s 2018 birthday🤪🤣

Jin cult chaos ended...And we got this stunning BTS layout.
ARMY + BTS = always the superior layouts. Pls don't fight me, I'm right. The pfp to header isn’t seamless, but it’s still just beautiful🥺💜😭
Pfp was from Season’s Greetings 2018; header from LY Tour @ Jamsil 2018.08

Only a couple April Fools @BTS_twt twitter layout changes in 2019. That Sope bio still gets me 🤣

Technically BTS updated their twt layout for Map Of The Soul: Persona cb before Jin Prawn & Sope. But I'll keep era layouts together:
1. MOTS:P before concept pics (reverted to after 2019.04.01)
2. pfp update w concept photo ver3
3. & 4. @bts_bighit & @BTS_jp_official were pretty

Adding to this thread when @BTS_twt reached 20M and tweeted about remembering when they had only 2000 followers six years ago 😭😭😭😭😭🥺💜

Map of the Soul: 7 era begins:
Twitter layouts (pre concept photo release) the day they changed for come back of @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit

.@BTS_twt and @bts_bighit twitter layouts the day they changed with MOTS: 7 concept photo update (using version 4).
They switched up how they typically used the concept photo group pic in their layout, this time it was the header🧐

The layout changes of @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit for Dynamite, the moment they update. BTS gained 3.6M new followers just from Feb (2020.02.12) to Aug (2020.08.01)🤯

Layout changes of @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit with Teaser Image 3 for Dynamite

Updated @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit Twitter layouts with announcement of BE comeback
(Also BTS reached 30M followers…they had ~23M in Feb 2020 with MOTS:7)🤯

New twt layouts for @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit w concept photos for BE the moment of change.
BTS used a montage on their account for the first time instead of a group shot and it's the header again (it was still kinda unusual for them)

I don't know if agree the new @BTS_twt @bts_bighit twt layouts looked better in light mode, but I'll also add them that way, just to keep this (already way too long) thread complete

.@BTS_twt and @bts_bighit twitter layout updates for Butter comeback (before concept pics)
1. & 2. Dark (lights out)
3. & 4. Day mode

I’ll add in dim mode of the @BTS_twt @bts_bighit Butter layout changes, as well as @BTS_jp_official in day mode because it was pretty (and this thread is insanely long already anyway)

.@BTS_twt and @bts_bighit twitter layout updates for Butter comeback, with teaser photo 1. Again, BTS used a montage as their header (still unusual in their overall discography/twitter history)
1. & 2. Dark (lights out) and
3. & 4. Day mode

Adding in dim mode just for completeness

Unexpected album/song art related twt layout changes in the middle of that music-era (a first for them) — Change for Butter CD release (and Permission to Dance)
1. & 2. Dark (lights out) of @BTS_twt and @bts_bighit’s new Butter themed headers
3. & 4. Light modes

.@BTS_twt and @bts_bighit twitter layout changes with Butter concept photo version 4 for Buttee CD/ Permission to Dance. BTS are back to using group photo as their header🧐
1. & 2. Dark (lights out)
3. & 4. Day mode

The timeline turned pink for the Remix of @BTS_twt Butter feat @theestallion — and BTS joined us!
(None of the official corporate BTS accounts changed layouts😂)

.@BTS_twt quietly returned to this era’s original Twitter layout right after announcing their next collab song, My Universe with Coldplay.

April Fools changes
1. Jimin layout (name 박지민(jimin park) Bio ‘Anyways, Park Jimin’
2. Tae layout (name ‘Golf Genius Kim Taehyung’ Bio ‘no no Kim Taehyung’
3 & 4. Reset attempt (Mobile & web) Bio ‘requesting to change the picture back to default, don’t remember [what it was]’

1. & 2. First layout reset
3. & 4. Second (maybe final for time being?) layout reset using pictures from PTD on Stage - Seoul from March 2022

Twt layout updates of
1 & 2. @BTS_twt upon release of promotion schedule for Proof and reveal of lead single’s title “Yet to Come” Dark & light mode
3 & 4. @bts_bighit and @BTS_jp_official

Twt layouts updated after final release of concept photos for #BTS_Proof, using concept version “Proof”:
1 & 2. @BTS_twt in light and dark mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official since it’s the only one using a grey logo

Twt layouts changes with a new header for the announcement of Jin’s solo single, The Astronaut
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

BTS’ twitter accounts changed their headers with the release of #Jin #TheAstronaut…@BTS_twt became purple 🥺💜
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

BTS’ twitter accounts changed their headers following the announcement of #RM first official solo album #Indigo
💜💙❤️
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

😅whoops, screen grabbed @bts_bighit’s new profile before they finished updating their bio for #Indigo. Full twt profile update, here

BTS’ accts updated only header pics upon Indigo’s release, adding the album cover detail “Documentation of my youth in the moment of independent phase. Sun-bleached record faded like old jeans. the last archive of my twenties”
1. & 2. @BTS_twt
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

BTS’ twitter accounts changed layouts with the announcement of Jimin’s solo album, Face
1. & 2. @BTS_twt (dark and light)
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

Layouts changed on the surprise announcement of j-hope’s single “on the street”🤯 (this is the fastest ‘all accounts’ switch they’ve ever done, even than LY: Wonder (& excluding April Fools’ antics on @BTS_twt))
1 & 2 @BTS_twt dark and light
3 & 4 @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official

BTS changed their again layouts for Jimin’s album, Face
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light
3. & 4. @bts_bighit and @BTS_jp_official

BTS’ accounts switched their headers (and the pfp on @BTS_twt) following the surprise announcement of Yoongi’s first official solo album under Agust D, D-Day😱🤯
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light
3. & 4. @bts_bighit and @BTS_jp_official

April 20, 2023, @BTS_twt let go of their blue verified check mark as twt changes, first time they’ve been without it since got it in 2014 in Dark & Wild era. Corp accts (so far) kept theirs. @bts_bighit w square icon and gold check for official businesses (verified organization)

And the blue check returned to @BTS_twt within ~8 hours the same day (mid-morning in KST April 21) 😂😅

BTS’ accts updated their header pics at D-Day’s release, changing to the actual album cover
Also @BTS_twt either let the blue check mark go again or possibly its (brief hours) return was a glitch. @bts_bighit also switched from verified org (gold check/square pfp) to simple blue

Twitter layout changes for Festa 2023, BTS’ 10th Anniversary.
In purple & our first Festa layout change ever🥺💜
1 & 2 @BTS_twt in dark and light
3 @bts_bighit
4 @BTS_jp_official
*see QT thread for (very) full history of how and why our color is purple etc

https://twitter.com/renkiger_/status/1587186819208478720?s=46&t=thgfPm0mpQvbM8juZ1yd2g

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ accounts updated their layouts following the announcement of Jungkook’s solo single, Seven
1 & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official (the only one with red, like the physical CD cover of Seven)

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ layouts changed for the announcement of the Hope Edition physical album of Hobi’s Jack In The Box, right after the 1yr anniversary of JITB’s release (with extra live tracks from Lollapalooza and instrumentals)
1 & 2 @BTS_twt in dark + light
3 @bts_bighit
4 @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ layouts changed on the surprise announcement for Tae’s solo album, Layover
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official Layouts were changed on the release of Hobi’s Jack in the Box, Hope Edition
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official Twt layouts changed upon the release of Tae’s Layover
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in light and dark
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official Twt layouts updated on announcement of Jungkook’s next single, 3D (feat. Jack Harlow) and, at the same time(!): drop of first concept pics, 3D Hero Film 01, 3D Hero Film 02, and opening of CD preorders…
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in light and dark
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ twt layouts were updated on the release of Jungkook’s single, 3D
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in light and dark
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ twt accounts all changed their layouts on the announcement of Jungkook’s upcoming first solo album, Golden. This is one of the fastest ‘all accounts’ layouts switches they’ve ever done🤯
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in light and dark mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official On release on JK’s Golden the official accts updated their twt layouts changing the font + color in their headers (also color in pfps) to ‘true’ shimmering golds (instead of initial yellows)
1. @BTS_twt
2. @bts_bighit
3. @BTS_jp_official
(sorry, this update is a couple days late)

BTS’ twt layouts turned purples (and pink) on the release of Jimin’s fan song, Closer Than This, after all seven members enlisted.
🎶Letting go of your hand for a moment but it's only a small comma in our story…
Until the days tinge purple once again🎶
🥺💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

Layouts were all updated for Hope on The Street Vol. 1, when the album and docuseries release date was announced!
1 & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official All layouts were changed on the (surprise) announcement of the release of Tae’s upcoming new love song, FRI(END)S (which will come out before HoTS Vol. 1)
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official Layouts were updated (the headers) on release of Tae’s digital single “Fri(end)s”
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit (which also returned to a square pfp and “verified organization” gold check)
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ twt layouts were updated for release of Hobi’s Hope on the Street docu-series and album
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS updated layouts on announcement of Namjoon’s next solo project, Right Place, Wrong Person
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official
(The layouts are all (more or less) “monochrome” 🧐🤔🤷‍♀️)

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ updated twt layouts for Festa 2024! Only the second time they’ve ever had festa themed sns profiles. And this year, we welcome Jin back during Festa 🥹💜
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark and light mode
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official

@BTS_twt @bts_bighit @BTS_jp_official BTS’ layouts were updated with post-Festa announcement of the release of Jimin’s second solo album, “Muse”
1. & 2. @BTS_twt in dark & light
3. @bts_bighit
4. @BTS_jp_official