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, rotting egg on top of it. So, yea.

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 ...

That egg was the default for people who didn't upload a photo to their profile. The company says the image was meant to signify how eggs hatch into birds and then tweet up a storm.

The Twitter default photo has gone through a number of changes throughout the years, including a person, emoticon and a bird. Twitter on Friday changed its default profile pic from an egg to a human ...

To help give the impression that the default photo is designed to be temporary, Twitter decided to go with a gray tone. It first tested a stripped pattern, and also a default image icon.

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’s new default avatar is a nondescript human silhouette. The company chose it because it found it to be everything a profile placeholder should be: generic, universal, serious, unbranded ...

Twitter has dropped the egg that serves as its default profile picture because of fears it has become synonymous with online abuse. The company admitted abusive accounts often use the image rather ...

Twitter has dropped the egg that serves as its default profile picture because of fears it has become synonymous with online abuse. The company admitted abusive accounts often use the image rather ...