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Twitter doing away with egg avatar in favor of faceless head

on Mar 31, 2017 | 0 comments

By Kyle O'Brien

Twitter avatar variations

Twitter hasn’t received much recent love for its egg avatar, the one assigned if you don’t upload a profile picture. That’s why a blog by the company today (March 31) said that Twitter will be “rethinking” its default profile pic.

The blog, by Twitter Design, said that the egg had been a playful way to reference how “eggs hatch into birds that send all the Tweets you see on Twitter!” Now, continued the blog, it is time for something new from the company that “encourages people to upload their own photos for more personal expression.

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Source: The Drum