I see icons like this one every so often and I think I have an idea what they're supposed to be. Take a 1bpp dithered image. Now downsample it with no regard for size or filtering. You might get something like this. I might try it tomorrow.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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