Founded in 2006 and continuing to be one of the most popular social media platforms today, Twitter is now saying goodbye to the world as “Twitter”. The platform was rebranded as “X” by its new owner, Elon Musk.
With this change, Twitter’s iconic blue bird logo has changed, replaced by an X. The X.com domain also started redirecting to Twitter. With the entire transformation process expected to be completed soon, let’s shed some light on the past. They are not fundamental changes, but how have the logos of other major social media platforms changed over the years?
The logo adventure of social media platforms:
Let’s start with Twitter:
Yes, you don’t see it wrong. Twitter had a logo made up of the words “Twtta” when it wasn’t going public yet. This logo changed with the launch of the platform in 2006. No one saw the existence of this logo.
Facebook:
Facebook, on the other hand, had gradients, one of the popular trends of that time, when it was founded in 2005. With the popularization of the minimalist concept over the years, the logo has become simplified, simplified, simplified…
Instagram:
Instagram is the star of our list. The platform also showed with its logo that it was a photo sharing platform. Until 2011, a prominent camera was featured in the logo. In 2016, the transition to color and camera vector, which is engraved in our memory, was made, and these colors were revived in 2022.
Snapchat:
Snapchat, the biggest of an era, had a friendly logo in 2011. But just like other platforms, it switched to the faceless ghost character towards the middle of the 2010s. In 2019, the contour of this character was further increased.
YouTube:
Although we remember that its logo has changed many times, it actually looks like it has changed very little, doesn’t it? YouTube had stuck to its original tracks until 2015, placing the word “Tube” in its name in a red box. In 2017, this box received a play button, and the YouTube text was completely removed from this frame.
Bonus – TikTok:
While all these platforms have undergone changes even recently, TikTok, the most popular social media platform, continues to use the logo it adopted in 2016. Although the text “TikTok” was added to this logo in 2017, this text changed to a state where “Tik” and “Tok” were combined in 2018.
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