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    Twitter Drops Its Egg, The Unintended Avatar Of Harassment

    Twitter announced it was doing away with the egg as its default icon, opting for a generic figure intended to encourage users to replace it with something more "expressive."
    by Laurel Wamsley Mar 31, 2017 2 minutes
    Sometimes you've gotta crack a few eggs... Twitter's new default avatar is aggressively generic.

    Since 2010, the default avatar on Twitter has been an egg. The idea apparently was that a new user was like a gestating bird, soon to make its first tweet. It was designed to be playful and cute.

    But over time, Twitter's eggs came to symbolize something different: users who remain shadowy on

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