Design Ideas For Twitter's New 'Bird' Included The Middle Finger

When Twitter updated its bird logo last July, did you ever wonder how they came up with the final design?

It appears they went through a typical brainstorming process, where designers sketched out a bunch of possible new looks for the bird, including the middle finger. Cover your little one’s eyes!

According to Gizmodo, “when Twitter rebranded its old fat whale of a bird logo into the svelte upward jumping bird logo it is now, it went through a lot of early concepts to get the angle of the bird jusssst right.” 

Twitter posted three sets of sketches

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