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03-21-2016, 06:12 AM
Twitter has grown up, and so has the Twitter bird
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Twitter has been on a long journey since its inception on Mar. 21, 2006, and so, it seems, has the flying Twitter bird.
To mark its 10th birthday on Monday, the social media platform released a video showing the logo's evolution. Much like man emerged from the primordial swamp, the Twitter bird has, over the years, shed its eyes and legs, got a haircut, and become the serious avian character we k**w today.
Twitter settled into its current bird in 2012. It was a new bird with clean lines to mark the platform's maturity and, finally, a chance to drop the word "Twitter" or the lowercase "t" from the logo. As*Doug Bowman, Twitter's former creative director,*wrote on the site's blog (https://blog.twitter.com/2012/taking-flight-twitterbird):*"Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/twitter-logo-evolution/)
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Twitter has been on a long journey since its inception on Mar. 21, 2006, and so, it seems, has the flying Twitter bird.
To mark its 10th birthday on Monday, the social media platform released a video showing the logo's evolution. Much like man emerged from the primordial swamp, the Twitter bird has, over the years, shed its eyes and legs, got a haircut, and become the serious avian character we k**w today.
Twitter settled into its current bird in 2012. It was a new bird with clean lines to mark the platform's maturity and, finally, a chance to drop the word "Twitter" or the lowercase "t" from the logo. As*Doug Bowman, Twitter's former creative director,*wrote on the site's blog (https://blog.twitter.com/2012/taking-flight-twitterbird):*"Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/twitter-logo-evolution/)
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