Twitter wants you to stop saying ‘Twitter eggs’
Twitter has changed the default profile picture for new accounts from an egg on one of seven different background colors to what they described to Fast Company as a “gumdrop-headed human.” They claim the human is genderless, and that is technically true, but society insists that the default gender is male and for my purposes right now in this blog (and at no other time) — so do I.
Twitter product designer Jeremy Reiss told Fast Company that the goal of the design was to reflect a collection of words. Here it is: “generic, universal, serious, inclusive, unbranded, and temporary... an empty state, essentially.” Yes, these are also words you could use to describe the 2014 film Boyhood.
The new Twitter default profile pic, which was...