Twitter has changed its default egg profile picture after the social media giant admitted it had noticed a pattern between accounts which used the image and those which carried out abuse on the site.

So, yea. The new default profile photo on Twitter. Image: Twitter While the egg came in an array of colorful options, the new default image is meant to be more generic and bland. The idea ...

Instead of the egg, Twitter is introducing a new default photo profile that's designed to encourage people to upload their own photos "for more personal expression." Twitter aimed to create ...

R.I.P. Twitter eggs. Twitter is changing its default profile photo and getting rid of the egg picture it has used since 2010 for users who don’t upload their own picture. Instead, Twitter is ...

Twitter announced in a blog post today that it is doing away with the iconic (and infamous) egg default profile picture. The company explained in the exhaustingly thorough blog post that in ...

Twitter officially replaced its iconic default profile image of an egg with an ordinary human-like blob on Friday. The company said it was time for something that would encourage people to upload ...

On Friday, Twitter introduced a new default profile picture, switching from the well-known egg to a simple human silhouette. Twitter hopes this change will encourage users to replace the default ...

When people join the social media site, the default image has been an egg since 2010. It was a fun and playful nod to how eggs hatch into birds. On Friday, the company changed the profile picture to a ...

Twitter announced this weekend that it had replaced its egg profile picture with a human silhouette. The egg profile picture has been the default photo for new users since 2010, but has become ...

If you joined Twitter at any point in the last several years, there's a good chance the default 'egg' profile photo is the only one you've ever known. The egg, while fitting with the service's ...

Twitter just lost what is arguably its most ... Starting Friday, the default profile photo is now a so-called "gender-balanced figure." We think it kind of looks like half of an egg with a small ...