Twitter Egg (Light Blue, 2014), u/yamen

Minted by OneName Project

Acquired by the present owner

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由OneName Project鑄造

現藏者購自上述來源

The origin story of the Twitter default profile picture, commonly referred to as the "Twitter Egg," dates back to the early days of Twitter's platform. The Twitter egg was introduced in 2010 as a default profile picture for new accounts that had not yet uploaded a custom profile image. The egg symbolized a blank canvas, signifying that the account was new and had not yet been personalized.

The egg default avatar was changed in 2017, however, several NFTs of the original Twitter Eggs were preserved as early as 2014. When people first started creating their profiles on OneName, an ID service provider from the Blockstack network, several users linked to their TwitterEgg avatar and cover images. The OneName project used the Namecoin blockchain as their backend, where the original NFT records were minted.

A total of 277 eggs were scraped from the blockchain, with 14 different color possibilities. These eggs were minted over the span of two years, 162 in 2014, and 115 eggs in 2015.