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Probably not many do remember, but before this logo Twitter had a different bird logo until the company was already quite big.

If I remember correctly this logo was allegedly bought from a royalty free image platform and Twitter had no exclusive rights to it. Also there was a little outcry that the original artist just received the royalty free platform usual ridiculously small one time payment.

EDIT: The one I remember is the second one in the timeline image from the following (unfortunately ad infested) article, so apparently it was not the first one they had.

https://www.afaqs.com/news/digital/has-musk-gone-too-far-wit...

I think that image really visualises how bad the x logo is

https://img-cdn.thepublive.com/filters:format(webp)/afaqs/me...

The original logos weren't great but they were more charming than X

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