Flipping the bird

Twitter's iconic bird logo may have been inspired by these doodles sketched on "brown paper towels acquired from the Twitter rest rooms."

The images were posted on Twitter's Dribbble.com profile just a few days ago.

Some of the designs look like they could be slapped onto the side of USPS trucks. The one on the top left is quite realistic. And lots of the designs are, well, quite wonky.

Look at these ones. Birds, more birds, and... wait-- what's that?! A picture of someone's hand, flipping the bird. That logo seems fitting to me. After all, some tweets are so dumb that the tweeter might as well be flipping everyone off anyways.

And this last batch is even more bizarre: A smoking bird with a mohawk. A geeky bird wearing thick, black-rimmed glasses and a bowl cut. A couple of birds made of hands. There you have it. They seemed to have made the right choice in the end.