00:00 After a decade of Twitter's iconic bird logo, the well-known symbol has been laid
00:04 to rest by Elon Musk.
00:10 Twitter has been marked by the little blue bird for years, but how did the logo come
00:14 about, what were Twitter's past logos, and why did Elon Musk decide to replace it?
00:19 Twitter was first created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.
00:24 The platform originally served to be a place where groups of people could send messages
00:28 back and forth, very similar to group texting.
00:30 The first Twitter logo may look alien to fans of the platform today, sporting a font in
00:35 green color not dissimilar to Nickelodeon's Slime or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
00:40 Luckily, this logo never reached the public.
00:43 Instead, the first public Twitter logo featured a Y2K-friendly and bubbly font, and the iconic
00:48 light blue Twitter became associated with.
00:50 The first tweet was written on March 21, 2006, and simply read "Just setting up my Twitter."
00:55 Just a couple months later, in July, the app debuted to web users.
00:59 The first Twitter bird was actually created in 2006, after British graphic designer Simon
01:03 Oxley put a blue bird on a stock image website.
01:06 A Twitter employee bought the design for $15.
01:08 However, because major companies aren't allowed to use stock images for logos, Twitter
01:12 opted for a redesign.
01:14 Twitter experienced its next logo change four years later in 2010, when Biz Stone transformed
01:19 the iconic blue bird into something more cartoonish.
01:21 By 2012, Twitter arrived at the bird logo users know and love today.
01:25 In 2012, Twitter's former creative director Doug Bowman said, "Twitter is the bird.
01:30 The bird is Twitter."
01:31 A statement that did not end up aging too well.
01:34 Longtime CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, took his final step down after leaving and returning
01:38 a few times in May of 2022.
01:40 While Elon Musk toyed with the stock market and buying Twitter for months, the company
01:44 has finally ended up under his watch.
01:47 As of July 24, 2023, Twitter officially changed its logo to the letter X.
01:51 In a Twitter Space audio chat, Musk said, "We're cutting the Twitter logo off the
01:55 building with blowtorches."
01:57 Though not many are fans of the change, it seems as though it's here to stay.
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