Twitter introduced a new, updated bird logo today and it's ever so slightly different from its previous bird logo. The color is a shade darker, the beak is a bit higher and it looks more like a soaring dolphin than a buoyed whale.
According to Twitter:
Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology, design within creative constraints, and simple geometry. This bird is crafted purely from three sets of overlapping circles - similar to how your networks, interests and ideas connect and intersect with peers and friends.
Whoa! Ornithology. Geometry. Overlapping circles. This sounds serious. But it's all pretty much frou-frou bullshit, in one week's time no one is going to know the difference. Heck, most people won't even realize it today. The bird looks better in a way that's invisible unless you were a fervent feather-counter and close bird-watcher of the previous logo. Less fat and more dove-ish. Twitter is trying to un-invisible the bird though and make it the "universally recognized symbol of Twitter"—there won't be text, the lower case 't' or bubble texts for Twitter the company anymore.

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