The History of Twitter’s Logos Before and After Elon Musk Came Along

After a decade of Twitter’s iconic bird logo, the well-known symbol has been replaced with the letter ‘X’ by Elon Musk.

The application has been marked by the little blue bird for years, but how did the logo come about, what were Twitter’s past logos, and why did Musk decide to replace it?

The Founding of The App And It’s Origins

The company was first created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. The platform originally served to be a place where groups of people could send messages back & forth, very similar to group texting.

The first logo may look alien to fans of the platform today, sporting a font and green color not dissimilar to Nickelodeon slime or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Luckily, this logo never reached the public. Instead the first public logo featured a Y2K friendly and bubbly font, and the iconic light blue Twitter became associated with.

The first tweet was written on March 21, 2006, and simply read, “just settin up my twtter.” Just a couple months later, in July, the app debuted to web users.

The Bird Debut

The first Twitter bird was actually created in 2006, after British graphic designer Simon Oxley put a blue bird on a stock image website. An employee bought the design for fifteen bucks. However, because major companies aren’t allowed to use stock images for logos, the platform opted for a redesign.

Twitter experienced its next logo change four years later in 2010, when Biz Stone transformed the iconic blue bird into something more cartoonish. By 2012, the company arrived at the bird logo users know and love today. 

In 2012 the platform’s former director Creative Director Doug Bowman, “Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter.” A statement which did not age well.

Twitter In Elon Musk Era

Longtime CEO Jack Dorsey took his final step down after leaving and returning a few times in May of 2022. While Elon Musk toyed with the stock market & buying Twitter for months, the company has finally ended up under his watch.

As of July 24th, 2023 the app officially changed its logo to the letter X. In a Twitter spaces audio chat Musk said, “We’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blow torches.”

Though not many are fans of the change, it seems as though it’s here to stay. 

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