This is like, a comedy at this point.
Twitter says egg avatars were being associated w/harassment. Instead of working on harassment, they changed the avi. https://blog.twitter.com/2017/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo …pic.twitter.com/Ddjh00m4vO
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Important: you can mute/block annoyances but harassment is something you need to keep an eye on. When you report & Twitter does nothing?pic.twitter.com/mEfqp1dSAP
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tfw you aren't the face of harassment anymorepic.twitter.com/zF07a8ptMj
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what the fuck even
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Nobody seems to realise it is April Fools Day...
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It's not an April Fool's joke. Their post is dated Friday, March 31, 2017.
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Fair enough... Seems as though it should be!
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I mean ffs at least the harassment was colorful before
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They pull this nonsense like we're going to stop calling twitter trolls Eggs anytime soon or as though folk who weren't behaving like asses
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were being targeted in some way purely because of the egg avatar.
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Or like even if you take their broken premises, those hypothetical people wouldn't now just be targeted for their silhouette avatars.
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It's really impressive work to identify entirely the wrong problem, and then take action that doesn't even address *that*.
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The problem is they IDed THEIR problem. Bad press associated with the "Twitter Egg" & set about eliminating that identifier from the site--
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They replaced it with something so standard it's unlikely to get a catchy nickname, thus eliminating a Twitter PR problem. In that sense,
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Twitter solved THEIR problem. What they didn't solve or even concern themselves with is the actual reason why Twitter Egg is a negative term
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Just brilliant
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