Help! My blog shows up as "Untitled" to followers

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  dispatchesfromthepotomac · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:13 am

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  If people go to my blog and ‘follow’ it, I get a confirmation like this:
  
  Dave is now following your blog, “Untitled.”

  I signed up from my email and got this:

  Howdy.

  You recently asked to follow this blog. This means you will receive each new post by email.

  Blog Name:
  URL: http://dispatchesfromthepotomac.wordpress.com

  The blog name is BLANK! I’ve contacted WP support and they never get back to me. But I can’t help but think this effects my following. It has to. So annoying. Any ideas at all???

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:29 am

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  Have you gone to Settings->General and put the name in there?

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  dispatchesfromthepotomac · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:31 am

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  Yep. It’s in there! I can’t imagine anywhere else I can include it, it just doesn’t show up.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:35 am

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  That is odd. I’m going to try it myself and see what happens. Looks fine to me.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:37 am

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  Whatever the problem was, it seems to have cleared up. I just got :

  Subscribed to Dispatches from the Potomac!

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  dispatchesfromthepotomac · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 2:59 am

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  Raincoaster, thanks for doing that, I don’t know what the deal is. Still seems screwy at my end with the way I’m seeing those notifications, but as long as it looks normal to viewers that’s all that matters. I just don’t want people to get a notification of, “Untitled just posted a new blog post” or something.

  Thanks again.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 3:04 am

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  I wonder what happens if you start a second blog? I have like a dozen blogs here that I contribute to, and that would drive me batty.

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  lisaasils · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 5:05 am

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  testing, testing

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 5:13 am

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  @lisaasils
  What can we help you with?

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  lisaasils · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 5:42 am

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  Hi timethief, Just trying to get a hang of the site, i made my profile a half hour ago or so. Sorry if im intruding on the topic lol, I think it might take me a while. I didn’t know how internet and profile-editing challenged i was until today. Getting familiar with the forums and the blog topics I was trying to find a site where I can blog and don’t like tumblr.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 5:43 am

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  Start with http://learn.wordpress.com

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  lisaasils · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 7:45 am

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  Ah, perfect. Thank you very much!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 12, 2012 at 7:58 pm

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  @lisaasils
  Hi again,
  The support documentation is all found at the Support link http://en.support.wordpress.com which is also found on the bottom of your Admin page, along with the link to the Learn WordPress.com blogging Tutorial prepared by Staff. You may also want to check these entries out:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/introduction/

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