Greatest innovation since Windows 8: 'Blue line' avatars

Twitter recently rolled out its “blue line” conversation feature, and it’s not getting good reviews:

https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/372906022991437824

https://twitter.com/danielleduguid1/status/374305141417336834

Twitter need to seriously sort out this blue line stuff, it just messes my timeline up

— Jordan Davies (@JordanDavies__) September 1, 2013

https://twitter.com/_saberrr/status/374261077464195072

The blue line is awful @twitter. #complaintbox

— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 30, 2013

https://twitter.com/rileymblack/status/374316285682647040

A few enterprising Twitter users have decided to embrace the dreaded blue line by incorporating it into their avatars:

Guys, I changed my avatar to a blue line on light background. Because I don't need to stand out in conversations. pic.twitter.com/voxuMNaBbI

— Gabe Rivera (@gaberivera) August 30, 2013

If you think there's no real innovation happening in Silicon Valley today, take a look at *this*. pic.twitter.com/NyzWHav4pd

— Gabe Rivera (@gaberivera) August 30, 2013

@nachimir Wow, lovely. Also David I want to converse with you more so I can see how this blue line avatar gag works

— Ed Key (@edclef) August 30, 2013

What if we got every Twitter user to change their avatar to the #BlueLine? Quick, someone start a http://t.co/qlnyPa39wm petition.

— Andrew Clark (@acdlite) August 30, 2013

It looks like Gabe Rivera is going to take it one step further:

@sacca YES. Finally, an easy AND original costume.

— Gabe Rivera (@gaberivera) August 30, 2013

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