Twitter Changes the Default New User Avatar [PIC]

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Or maybe it's because an egg signifies a new user, full of potential for tweets as yet unsent (continuing to play on the bird-related imagery associated with the company).

In any event, the change happened quietly as Twitter brought members of the media into its San Francisco headquarters to unveil the new version of Twitter.com, which among other things allows users to embed videos, maps and pictures in their tweets without requiring followers to click on any external links.

Twitter last changed its default profile image around this time last year, then replacing the terrible eyesore we described as "the weird brown smiley face" with a wide variety of colored Twitter birds.