What Is The Name Of The Twitter Bird

Though the design has morphed a bit over the years the name has remained unchanged.

From now on this bird will be the universally recognizable symbol of twitter. As you can see twitter clearly refers to the bird as larry in parentheses. In honor of the twitter bird s new third iteration we decided to remember when twitter announced its real name. The iconic little fellow seen in twitter s logo shown in tv commercials print ads and practically every web site was named after boston celtics legend larry bird.

The blue twitter bird logo is well known across the globe. Twitter was launched in 2006. From the official twitter blog. But there still are many people who do not know that its logo a bird has a name.

As in larry bird the hall of fame basketball player. The little guy may have been named after former nba player larry bird who played for twitter co founder biz stone s home state team the boston celtics. Well the little guy s got a name. Twitter is the bird the bird is twitter there s no longer a need for text bubbled typefaces or a lowercase t to represent twitter.

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The bird depicted in the twitter logo looks pretty much the same as the mountain bluebird which can be found in north america. It s larry t bird. You know that blue twitter bird that s always popping up these days. Few know that the twitter bird has a name however.

Doug named the bird larry he decided on the name as a way to honor former boston celtics player and indiana pacers manager larry bird. The bird was initially named larry after the basketball player larry bird. The official name of twitter s bird is larry. It was designed by simon oxley.

Ryan sarver product manager for twitter s platform api team mentioned larry s name in a tweet on february 27. Twitter bought the bird design on istock for just 15. The inspiration behind the name was larry bird the basketball legend who was in mumbai recently for the nba games. Yes his name is larry bird.

Larry s name was confirmed by twitter in a tweet made a few months ago.