Twitter Paid Less Than $20 for Its First Logo

Twitter’s Larry Bird hasn’t always been the happy little blue bird pictured above. His original incarnation was white, and cost little more than a couple of cups of coffee to produce.

Business Insider has the scoop on Twitter’s very first logo.

Back when Twitter launched in 2006, it seemed like the founders scrambled a bit to find a suitable logo. While “Twitter” (or Twttr as it was spelled at the time) lends itself to bird imagery, none of the founders was up to the task of creating a logo – so they bought one from iStock.

That little white bird, who was presumably much less expressive than today’s Twitter logo, was the first real Twitter logo.