Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

For nearly two weeks now, I have been noticing that something odd was happening to most of the things I either blogged or tweeted on Twitter.

Instead of the image that belonged to the piece, my avatar was boldly displayed alongside the one that is always there. Not a good look at all. Talk about over kill, and it looked for all the world as if I was passing all these things as my own. Something I find totally disrespectful to all my blogger friends.

I spend a lot of time promoting other people’s articles and blogs, and have even been called ‘the re-blogging queen’ so this was even more distressing to me. Something was wrong, but I had no clue where to look for the culprit.

I searched for the reason, convinced it was nothing I had personally done, but the more I looked, the more impossible it seemed.

The trouble with all these sites we bloggers use, is that they will keep tweaking things and I wish they wouldn’t.

I checked everywhere, which wasn’t easy for me, as I wouldn’t normally recognise a technical fault from a hole in the wall, but I had to try and solve the mystery.

I asked everyone I could think of, apart from Twitter. For some reason, they don’t have a help screen as such, or if they do, I have never found it.

At first, I thought it was something to do with Buffer, the tweet-scheduling people and asked them about it. They are so helpful at Buffer, and tried so hard to figure it out with no luck.

I spent over an hour today talking to WordPress.com Support, sending them screenshots of the problem. Eventually they understood what I was complaining about, and admitted to changing some of their procedures recently. Why was I not surprised?

They even admitted that faced with the evidence, it did seem like a stupid change, and something that should be reversed. They couldn’t say when though, so I won’t be holding my breath.

Seeing as how I don’t want my avatar plastered all over Twitter, I am going to have to find a solution, something that works for me. Not sure how, at the moment, short of stopping re blogging all together, something I don’t really want to do.

So if anyone has noticed, and God forbid got annoyed at what has been happening on Twitter, please be aware that it wasn’t done deliberately, and with a bit of luck and a following wind, won’t be happening again.