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Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Rotkapchen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:49:26 -0000

Avatar AND background missing for over a day.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Name — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:52:39 -0000

My "face" has disappeared too! @gacross

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Kelly Seow — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:09:20 -0000

This happened to me today but I was able to fix it quite easily - just restored my profile pic and custom background. :)

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

grahamGrafx — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:08:59 -0000

I, @grahamgrafx lost my icon and background. i really dont want spend the time looking for my avatar on my computer and resetting it.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

skvanhooser — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:38:29 -0000

Not a victim yet, but will keep you posted!

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Sharlene — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:46:09 -0000

Yep. Mine is gone. Thanks for the info!

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Shauna — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:17:56 -0000

I lost my avatar and background. :(

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Hillary — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:03:50 -0000

My married name is "Bird" so I thought someone was screwing with me. Alas, no.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Ugogurl — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:16:37 -0000

lost avatar & custom background... easy to reload for me, but shud I or leave it up to you to restore? (I mean Twitter, not Mashable)

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

F. Andy Seidl — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:55:56 -0000

me to; lost avatar and background

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

David Spinks — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:55:42 -0000

It's the next morning...and IT'S STILL GONE

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

@pinemeadowpond — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:52:41 -0000

I'm still experiencing this problem. Lost my background photo as well as my avatar.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Thomas McMahon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:57:41 -0000

Mine has disappeared from Twitter. The little bird is pretty cute though.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

niceguyted — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:30:50 -0000

No need to call the waaaaa-mbulance for me. I lost my avatar...and uploaded it again. Everything's back to normal now.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

rethavs — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:38:50 -0000

also lost both avatar and custom bg, but i agree that these are better default avatars! the old brown one was sooo boring! Or maybe it should be boring so people actually change them again! :-)

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Duncan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:40:54 -0000

Hey just grab your Gravatar and Twitify it here: http://getgravatar.com/

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Phil Leggetter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:36:55 -0000

I noticed this 9 hours ago and Tweeted about it: http://twitter.com/leggette...

It's funny this should happen as I've been working on a little project for a few days because I don't think we should have to maintain our profile pictures in multiple places, we should maintain them in one and all other services should get our avatar/profile images form there. Gravatar (http://www.gravatar.com) provide just this service but unfortunately quite a lot of service providers don't support Gravatar.

Warning: plug...
So, I've written a web app that allows you to update your social media service profile with your Gravatar. It only supports Twitter at the moment but I'll add other services if it proves popular. It also doesn't automatically update your social media profile if you update your Gravatar but I plan to add this functionality.

I've unsurprisingly named the service GetGravatar (http://getgravatar.com). Give it a go and please give me some feedback. Hopefully services will natively support Gravatar in the not too distant future but until then we'll need these sorts of services to make our life a little easier.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

NOT Seth Rogen — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:04:58 -0000

Yeah mine got snagged too, but in MY case I actually look like that bird, so it's okay.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Home Cinema Buyer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:09:14 -0000

Ours has disappeared too. We thought it was Twitter objecting to our garish red background, but apparently not!

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

specialf — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:52:15 -0000

I have my av on here but not twitter. How bizarre! My background went too...

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

lautsprecherkabel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:26:04 -0000

Well, Thanks for updating but I lost my avtar as well as my face. So, can you tell me how to get my avtar and face back....

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Julie Cockburn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:23:59 -0000

I'm still faceless and my background is gone :( I've tried uploading a new pic, but I just end up at an error page. I guess I'll try again later.

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Rinat Abdullin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:51:37 -0000

It looks like something got messed up with Amazon AWS (cloud service that is used to store Twitter images along the other things)

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

apriladr — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:17:34 -0000

My picture is gone

Re: Twitter’s New Avatar Takes Over Unsuspecting Accounts

Batman — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:56:37 -0000

Fascinating.