Twitter Replaces Default Egg Profile Photo

[MacRumors]

Twitter today announced that it is doing away with the egg profile photo that was used for any Twitter account that did not upload its own profile picture.

Over time, the egg, which has been around for many years, has come to be associated with accounts created to harass others, giving the egg a negative connotation that Twitter wanted to do away with.

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 something that was generic, universal, serious, unbranded, temporary, and inclusive, and which felt more like a placeholder than the egg.

The company went through many profile photo iterations before landing on a simple gender neutral line-based figure in a generic shade of gray.

Twitter's new default profile photo has already rolled out and people should be seeing the figure instead of an egg on any account without a user-uploaded profile picture.

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[Dilster3k]

Why does this matter

 

[69Mustang]

I wonder if this has anything to do with FBI Director James Comey being outed on Twitter yesterday. That was an interesting story on Gizmodo.
Reinhold Niebuhr

 

[0098386]

So now one can't call those xenophobic, homophobic, anti Islamic, anti Semitic, etc people "bad eggs".

 

[decimortis]

That's eggist.

 

[JMacHack]

"Let's replace something nice with something completely generic!"
Slow news day, huh?

 

[Koodauw]

will eggsplaining still be a thing?

 

[az431]

Why does this matter

Read past the title.

 

[JetTester]

Read past the title.

And the question remains...

 

[Johnny907]

Read past the title.

*reads past the article*
Yup, still doesn't matter. Twitter is still an unchecked haven of hate, only now the bullies will be represented by a vaguely anthropomorphic blob instead of an egg. Well done, Twitter.

 

[CarpalMac]

Yes, YES! This will fix twitter. {Calls stockbroker to place order}

 

[pdaholic]

will eggsplaining still be a thing?

That's a bad yolk, but omelette it slide.

 

[GeneralChang]

That's a bad yolk, but omelette it slide.

This article is justified by the eggsistance of this comment.

 

[now i see it]

I'm glad they changed it. It reminded me to upload my new avatar

 

[ranchsauce]

Twitter has a bird theme, for example, people Tweet and Twitter's logo is a bird. The default egg profile picture is to show that the new user is "hatching".

I doubt Twitter are replacing this as it goes against their whole philosophy and makes them more generic. Therefore, this is probably an early April Fools'.

 

[picciano]

Somehow Twitter made two round shapes look sad and depressed.

 

[macduke]

Best MacRumors story ever 10/10

 

[glindon]

"gender neutral"
Hahahahahahahahahaha

Give me a break!

I swear to god it looks like the head of a penis. Cannot unsee.

 

[CarpalMac]

I swear to god it looks like the head of a penis. Cannot unsee.

My suggestion is don't ever study a Skoda badge too carefully then.

 

[glindon]

My suggestion is don't ever study a Skoda badge too carefully then.

No I just looked it up having never heard of a Skoda. That looks like a woodpecker head.

 

[mrgraff]

The article reads like an April fools joke. That said, I can't figure out what the funny part is.

 

[Bart Kela]

Drat.

 

[Just1n12]

Still looks just as bad as the egg

 

[MacAndTosh]

just in time for easter.

 

[itguy06]

*reads past the article*
Yup, still doesn't matter. Twitter is still an unchecked haven of hate, only now the bullies will be represented by a vaguely anthropomorphic blob instead of an egg. Well done, Twitter.

"Hate" is all around us - the sooner people learn to deal with it the better off they become. I quote "hate" because I think a lot of the use of that word is nonsense designed to rile people up.

You can chose not to use Twitter if it bothers you so much.