Nerdy Outrage! 13 Tweeters React To Their New Bird Avatar.

Posted by Tremendous in Featured Articles, Nerdynessdom, Opinion., Twitter. on 09 18th, 2009 | Comments

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On Twitter, there’s one thing you don’t mess with.

Someone’s avatar.

Twitter did exactly that last night when it was tweaking something and instead, lost thousands of people’s avatars.  Twitter replaced them with a little bird.

You would think this wouldn’t be that big of a problem.

Ha!

How very wrong of you.

Take a look at the different ways people responded.

The Rational Response:

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A Tiny Bit of Anger:

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Maybe More Than A Tiny Bit.

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Confusion.  Self-doubt.

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Key Brand Placement.

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More Questions.

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Comedy.  Well… Effort.

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Elegance.

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Denial.

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Foreign Amazingness.

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"With this stupid bird twitter avatar makes it no fun. Flick times, Twitter!"

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"Like @aksie, now my avatar has been lost. I see that we are not alone. Then I take a new choice."

Hilarious Delusion.

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Acceptance.

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Don’t Follow Me Here.

  • norean
    people are so anal, lol i said anal. really whats the big deal?
  • annehodg
    Look, our souls are on Twitter.
    BTW, and not that it matters, but the translation bot made mincemeat out of that German tweat. The real burger: "It's no fun twittering with this bird avatar. Hey, c'mon, fix it, Twitter."
  • Talk about psycho people.

    That happened to me, and I had to do was RE-UPLOAD aka NOT A BIG DEAL. *geesh* those people need to get a life.
  • That would require effort on their part (which, of course we can't have!) So in their infinite wisdom, they figured that voicing their lazyness as a tweet is much easier than hitting an "upload" button.
  • These "important" people simply seems to forget that there are more "important" topic than an avatar.. gosh..
  • Name
    @Ruhani You need to stop taking other peoples twitter updates via RSS and feeding them in as your own tweets (what? you thought no-one knew) oops Gosh!
  • LOL.. I feed from various website feeds (Making them Popular indeed) ;) not people (maybe make them popular too) .. :) and of course I know that you know :P
  • Name
    Nope wrong you take feeds from twitter users and feed them as yours, ie their updates without attribution which is against Twitter ToS, please don't lie about it! Gosh either say Yes I do and which accounts you feed in or I will ;)

  • That's a lot of profanity. Wouldn't it have been funnier if the default avatar was the fail whale?
  • wow, imagine the outcry then!!

    i'd kind of like fail whale... i think he gets a bum rep :(
  • FireSpy
    @inside_it "Flick times"? What is that, like flicking the bean, inside_it?

    I officially need to go on a date.
  • MLS
    So there's a HUGE healthcare debate going on, ACORN is f*cked, people are crying "racist" because they're not supporting Obama, cats are sleeping with dogs, up is down, left is right and ALL YOU CAN DO IS BLOG ABOUT TWITTER??? WTF?
  • MLS, I hope you're kidding. You guys need all the comedic relief you can get. Oh, and turn off the news for a day or two. It'll do you a world of good.
  • Oh Tonya, by the sounds of things, you av switch was probably a blessing to your followers.

    This last little blip was hilarious to watch. People, this is a free service. It's not the fucking end of the world. Unless you live in your basement and these are your only real friends.

    Good luck with that.

    (no offense to you TN)
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