Twitter’s newest sudden change is sq. profile photos for manufacturers

Twitter is including to its more and more complicated methods of differentiating accounts with new sq. profile photos with rounded corners for manufacturers. The brand new kind of profile pic began rolling out on the platform on Monday, and also you would possibly already have the ability to see them on model profiles and in your feed.

Right here’s what The Verge’s new sq. profile pic appears to be like like, for instance:

And right here it’s within the feed:

It seems that these sq. profile photos are being utilized to accounts with gold verification badges, which already denote official business accounts. The Verge’s official offers and transportation-focused accounts, for instance, have blue badges and nonetheless have spherical profile photos.

I must also observe that the sq. profile photos are literally the third attainable possibility. Most accounts have the usual circle, manufacturers now have squares, and Twitter Blue subscribers with NFT profile photos can have hexagons.

However sq. profile photos aren’t the one new identification software Twitter is rolling out. It’s additionally introducing a brand new smaller field that sits subsequent to a checkmark on a profile and appears to indicate one account’s connection to a different. (We’re approaching Tumblr-level ridiculousness here.)

I’ve seen examples of this for myself on three accounts: @TwitterSupport, as proven within the screenshot on the high of this submit, the official Twitter Verified account, and @TwitterBlue. Hovering over the miniaturized profile image at present doesn’t present any form of indicator of what it’s, not like verification badges, which do). Within the case of the Assist, Verified, and Blue accounts, for those who click on on the little field, it takes you to the primary Twitter account.