To participate in Tweeting Colors, simply post a tweet containing the following three elements:

• #tweetcolors (This is a tag acting as a filter. This is a new tag as of March 29, 2010, replacing #afd.)
• a color name from the HTML color chart below. It is not case-sensitive, so you can use all caps or all lowercase.
• a number between 1 and 20, inclusive. This determines the width of the vertical band of color you're creating.

Be sure not place any of these elements directly up against any other characters, including punctuation. Your qualifying tweet should show up in the Color Feed within a minute. Examples of acceptable tweets:   #tweetcolors DARKRED 4  or  deeppink 18 #tweetcolors  or  you can simply work these tags into a normal post: Cleaning out the blue garage today #tweetcolors 8

NOTE: Your tweets must appear as part of the public timeline. If you protect your tweets, they are not searchable and will not show up in Tweeting Colors.