Twitter bird gets new wings

The Twitter bird is well known and quite ubiquitously embodies the action of a tweet. The bird, previously taking many forms, being oriented in a straight line or looking slightly up, has changed to one standard bird. This also means that it's the only official Twitter logo.

The logo with the "t" in the blue square, the logo with Twitter's entire name in blue as well as all versions of the previous birds are now obsolete and do not accurately represent the company. Twitter's Creative Director, Doug Bowman wrote in a blog post, "Starting today you’ll begin to notice a simplified Twitter bird. From now on, this bird will be the universally recognizable symbol of Twitter. (Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter.) There’s no longer a need for text, bubbled typefaces, or a lowercase “t” to represent Twitter." Twitter has created an image with all the previously obsolete versions of the logo.

Click here for full story