Twitter Bug Randomly Swaps Out Avatars For Some Accounts, Profile Settings Now Disabled

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Well here?s a Twitter bug that is kind of alarming. Apparently, for some verified accounts, avatars were swapped out with other random users?.

Currently, the profile settings are disabled for all users, so you?re stuck with what you have now. Can you imagine trying to tweet and seeing some random Joe in your place? Yeah, weird.

Here?s what the company had to say on the matter a few hours ago:

Digg was affected:

I?m pretty positive that this isn?t 500?s Dave McClure:

Here?s what you see if you try to enter the profile settings area:

All kidding aside, this is a very serious issue. It?s flat-out odd to think of a time where you could be potentially locked out of your Facebook settings, so this is pretty sad to see from Twitter.

A Twitter representative tells us that the company is indeed ?looking into it.?

This is developing.

UPDATE: How about this? He figured out who his avatar was:

h/t Dan

[Photo credit: Flickr]

Twitter, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 (launched publicly in July 2006), is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to post updates 140 characters long. Twitter ?is a real-time information network that connects [users] to the latest stories, ideas, opinions, and news.? The service can be accessed through a variety of methods, including Twitter?s website; text messaging; instant messaging; and third-party desktop, mobile, and web applications. Twitter is currently available in...

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Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/14/twitter-bug-randomly-swaps-out-avatars-for-some-accounts-profile-settings-now-disabled/

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