Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines

[shortformblog]

I love that someone did this. Twitter is crazy if they think anyone without API access and a financial stake is actually going to bother to listen to their brand guidelines.

One of the things that made Twitter a great brand is that end users got to kind of invent a little bit of the brand whenever they promoted their Twitter accounts on their sites and other places. It encouraged creativity that eventually extended to what the users posted on the service.

Why bow to the gods of uniformity after half a decade of freedom? With the reach of their network and the level of influence they've built, don't they have something better to spend their time on?

[tikhonj]

I don't think they really expect everyone to listen to their guidelines. However, in order to maintain their trademark, I believe they have to defend it actively. I think this page is more a way to appease the lawyers than anything else.

Of course, I know literally nothing about the laws in question and could be off base entirely.

[mortenjorck]

I've seen quite a few brand standard manuals in my time in the creative industry, and this is the most memorable way I've ever seen to cover the "don'ts" section.

[gilrain]

Press chirp. Press rotate three times. Press multiply many times. Press ledge.

Result: many Twitter birds beak-planting into the ground and farting in surprise.

[grampajoe]

They'll have to add that to the unit tests.

[Foy]

Press multiply ~30 times. Press disco.

Now spam rotate. :)

Disco party!

[wensing]

"don't copy our look and feel" https://twitter.com/about/logos#visual-design

Uh, like bootstrap.js? :)

[hammock]

It took me about five minutes to figure out what was the point of this website. I'm on a 13in Macbook Pro and didn't realize you could scroll down to see the buttons. Does it bother anyone else when people design websites for tall screens that most people on laptops just don't have?

[mark_story]

No now you're justifying 'the fold' and it tyranny over webdesign :(

[twodayslate]

Scrollbars - Crazy right?

[thurn]

What resolution? It seems fine on my 11 inch Air @ 1366x768.

[spicyj]

I am unsure why I find this hilarious.

[adventureful]

I think it's the can't-un-see Batman logo.

[Samuel_Michon]

Doesn't work in Mobile Safari. (Does it use legacy technologies like Flash or Java?)

[xiaoma]

Java and flash each have current install bases of 1,000,000,000+ devices and are adding devices at a rate that far outstrips mobile safari. Neither are shiny, cool technologies, but they're not "legacy technologies" yet.

[SoftwareMaven]

Works fine here in the iPad (both in Safari and another browser).

[iclelland]

Pinch to zoom out. The bird is probably off-screen.

[ocamlmycaml]

If you rotate the bird 180 degrees and add the chirp, you get a farting bird.

[davidtyleryork]

Listen to this and keep clicking Disco for awesomeness :D

http://soundcloud.com/wolfganggartner/flexx-teaser

[ricardobeat]

Maybe it's just me, change aversion and all, but the new bird is a bit odd and not friendly anymore. It's facing up in an angelic pose, tilting it's head back in ecstasy.

[franze]

uiuiuiui

https://twitter.com/about/logos

someone at twitter must have had to much time at his (or her) hands.

[pdeuchler]

My favorite: "Don't: Copy our look and feel, as this could create user confusion."

Ummmmm... https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap

[natesm]

The favicon on that page violates the brand guidelines.

[DigitalSea]

Everyday I'm violatin'

[roflcoptertog]

rule 34?

[vini]

very good, I laughed a lot.

[sparknlaunch]

What is this?

I know Twitter recently changed (standardized) their logo but how is this site relevant?

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/06/taking-flight-twitterbird.ht...

[3mpach3r]

Ummm... Why?

[AnthonyJoseph]

Why not?

[planetguy]

To, like, fight the power, man.

[bwei]

Nice.

[rjsamson]

Batman!