Twitter has grown up, and so has the Twitter bird

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 know 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: "Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter." Read more...