Vicki Boykis on Twitter (Twitter)I can forgive Twitter for stuff like,,,destroying the free world and inciting cancel culture, but I cannot forgive it for taking away the direct link to my profile picture, because I used that link all the time for speaking bios.
— Vicki Boykis (@vboykis) November 12, 2019
Why not keep your avatar on a website you own and control? If it’s at a permalink you control, you can even replace the photo and those who hotlink/transclude it will allow you to update it automatically over time. As an example, I keep one of me at https://www.boffosocko.com/logo.jpg. Having a permalink to my own avatar was the only reason I got a website, and now look what I’ve gotten myself into…
If I recall correctly, when you delete or replace those Twitter avatars, the old links go dead and they generate a new link anyway.
Absolutely, this is the correct answer but I’m super lazy and this is the result.