Twitter Drops Its Egg, The Unintended Avatar Of Harassment
Twitter announced it was doing away with the egg as its default icon, opting for a generic figure intended to encourage users to replace it with something more "expressive."
by Laurel Wamsley
Mar 31, 2017
2 minutes
Since 2010, the default avatar on Twitter has been an egg. The idea apparently was that a new user was like a gestating bird, soon to make its first tweet. It was designed to be playful and cute.
But over time, Twitter's eggs came to symbolize something different: users who remain shadowy on
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