Twitter is retiring its default ‘egg’ profile picture, but that doesn’t do anything to solve its abuse problems. The egg has been around since 2010. by Kurt Wagner. Mar 31, 2017, 4:39 PM UTC ...

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.

Twitter has announced that its doing away with the egg default profile picture, a symbol that has been used on the site since 2010.It’s time for something new – something that encourages ...

Twitter has dropped the egg that serves as its default profile picture because of fears it has become synonymous with online abuse. While acknowledging that some users kept the egg because they ...