Friday brought with it some terrible news: the Twitter Egg would be no more. The company announced that it was retiring the default user avatar in favor of something that "encourages people to upload images that express themselves." While the new solution—a LinkedIn-style featureless gray bust—isn't exactly exciting, it's also un-yolked from the egg's super-harassy reputation, which has only grown during its seven-year life. So good job, Twitter! Way to change the abstraction that people associate with drive-by racism and spammy group DMs! Still, you have to admit that it's a little eerie not seeing those odious little ovals popping up in your mentions. In order to give them a proper send-off, we took a page out of the Academy Awards' playbook; Sara Bareilles couldn't make it to sing along, but it's probably just because she didn't recognize our new blobby gray avatar.
RIP, Twitter Egg. It Was Good Knowing You, However Anonymously
With the social-media platform killing off its infamous avatar, we pay our respects to the departed.
