Twitter drops egg icon in battle with Internet ‘trolls’

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Thursday, 06 Apr 2017
8:23 AM MYT

SAN FRANCISCO: An egg icon that for years marked profiles of new Twitter users was gone April 3, a victim of “trolls” who often hid behind them to launch anonymous online attacks.

For seven years, anyone who created a Twitter account automatically got an egg icon as their profile picture, which they were then invited to customize with images of their own.

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