TWITTER -we made their avatars look like car headrests — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) March 31, 2017. In fact, Twitter has introduced new measures to crack down on harassment in recent months, but ...

Twitter's egg avatar, often a symbol of anonymous online harassment on the social media service, is no more. On Friday, Twitter confirmed it's ditching the egg in favor of a more generic, default ...

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.

Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate. Apple is increasingly ...

Twitter unveiled a new default avatar today--replacing the iconic Twitter egg with a humanoid silhouette. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip. Featured. Featured. Breaking News. White House Watch.

Rosie O'Donnell modified her Twitter avatar on February 9. 2017, so she appears to look like Steve Bannon, whom she's been lobbying to spoof on "Saturday Night Live." Twitter/@Rosie.

We've all been told not to judge a book by its cover, but let's face it: we did, and will continue to do so. In the age of Kindles, iPads and BlackBerries a more fitting cautionary expression ...