{"id":205400,"date":"2017-04-03T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205400"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:32:04","slug":"twitter-changes-its-default-profile-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/205400-twitter-changes-its-default-profile-picture.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter changes its default profile picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/rethinking-our-default-profile-photo\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0this weekend that it had replaced its egg profile picture with a human silhouette.<\/p>\n<p>The egg profile picture has been the default photo for new users since 2010, but has become associated with negative behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it noticed harassment and negative behaviour directed at new users with the default egg profile picture.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter hopes the new\u00a0greyscale human silhouette picture will encourage users to upload their own personalised profile picture.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it chose a gray, generic image to communicate that the picture is meant to be replaced by a profile photo.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Twitter-profile-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-205402\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Twitter-profile-picture.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter profile picture\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Twitter-profile-picture.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Twitter-profile-picture-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Twitter-profile-picture-595x400.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/205188-twitter-usernames-now-excluded-from-140-character-limit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter usernames now excluded from 140-character limit<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter recently announced it had replaced its egg profile picture with a human silhouette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":82893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[33166,405],"class_list":["post-205400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-profile-picture","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205420,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205400\/revisions\/205420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}