New Twitter users will no longer have eggs as a default image

Twitter, a media giant is replacing them with a neutral silhouette to encourage people to personalise their accounts, which it hopes will end the abuse.

Twitter said: "We’ve noticed patterns of behaviour with accounts that are created only to harass others – often they don’t take the time to personalise their accounts, This has created an association between the default egg profile photo and negative behaviour, which isn’t fair to people who are still new to Twitter and haven’t yet personalised their profile photo."

And some users are pleased they will no longer be harassed by eggs.

how it felt being harassed by twitter eggspic.twitter.com/MwU9SbWyNp

— shan murphy (@acornfriend) April 1, 2017

The twitter bird no longer lays eggs

So the egg accounts are over

— Arthur Musinguzi (@arthurtotally) April 1, 2017

While others are not happy that they are leaving.

Like him

I miss Twitter eggs.

Decapitated faceless bodies are somehow less whimsical.

— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) April 1, 2017

And her

RIP the twitter eggs pic.twitter.com/ZlLpsNRaEh

— daphne (@pjkilysb) April 1, 2017

And this egg

where did my egg go #TwitterEggs #why #Egg#deletingmyself

— april P. (@aprilPhaigh) April 1, 2017

Twitter has increased its efforts against online abuse and revealed it had shut down more than 375,000 accounts in the second half of 2016 because of site violations.