Twitter Egg, R.I.P.

The social network revealed its new default profile picture in a Twitter Design blog post, providing a look at how it has evolved since Twitter’s debut in 2006.

Twitter said reasons behind the change included keeping up with its brand refreshing from 2016, encouraging users to share more about themselves and negative impressions of the egg due to its use by profiles that were created for the purposes of trolling and harassment, saying of the latter:

We’ve noticed patterns of behavior with accounts that are created only to harass others—often they don’t take the time to personalize their accounts.