Twitter Art – The most inspirational Twitter graphics

One of the things that came along with the mainstream status of Twitter is the coolness of the bird as illustration element in web design. Bird is the new black. Everybody understood that any decent website should have at least one tiny little bird, whether is used as a follow me on Twitter button or just as a visual mantra. We made a selection of the best works we came across lately and we invite you to click on them to see the websites and to add some other examples in the comments. Thanks!

Extras:

if you want your own bird, follow this great tutorial from NetTuts
472 Twitter goodies on Etsy
236 bird products on Supermarket HQ
the best bird font ever is also free on Dafont
100 free Twitter icons for your blog on Hong Kiat
you might need a few Twitter cupcakes
also for your Twitter inspiration we recommend you the bigges hit ever – Surfin’ Bird by The Trashmen (1963)
very nice article about the fact that Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic
Revenge of the Birds: new interview in Wired about how to switch a bird embryo to get a baby dinosaur
a few birds from comments: here, here & here
if you don’t belive me that the Bird is indeed the WORD, please watch this video

Catalin Zorzini

Catalin is the founder of Mostash - a social marketing boutique - and he's always happy to share his passion for graphic design & social media. Catalin Zorzini has 219 posts at Inspired Mag & counting!

Comments

Lucien March 13th

Hey, the list is great. I also have a bird project in mind, so I’ll keep you posted.
Hope to see more posts like this one the next days.
mark March 13th

yo keep the birds comin! I think there are alot more outhere
Julian March 13th

That birdhive one is the middle is soooo cute!
Catalin Zorzini March 13th

Lucian, Mark – you ain’t seen nothing yet! thanks!

Julian – I like HootSuit best!
Lars March 14th

Thank you for listing our twitter graphic!
http//www.cssstyle.me
Anh dep March 14th

Cool graphic! Thanks for sharing!
Glynn Smith March 14th

Big hugs for featuring Bumble, our little mascot. I love the agencyofrecord.com mascot, too – That facial expression is where it’s at!
Antonis March 14th

hi, this is a great gallery i ve made recently two images inspired from twitter, so have a look if you like

http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonist/3310623942/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/antonist/3350614361/in/photostream/
Chris Wallace March 14th

Don’t forget my Tweeties, they’re licensed under a Creative Commons license. A great addition to the list!
Bas March 14th

The Bird is the word! =)

Like the list, thanks!
grone March 15th

This is great. thank you and keep em coming!
Pierro Marie March 15th

Awesome – nise list and by the way, i love a lot of your icons
salut and some greets from germany …
Hit Counter March 17th

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Twitter Themes March 21st

Looks ok, some of them look to be drawn by 7 year olds though.
lollot March 24th

Hey here is my bird lollot.com
julie adore March 27th

i make the Twitter Dolls “Sweet Tweet”
Find them on my Blog at tag “made by me”

See you!;-)
Bruno Ancona Lopes May 31st

Awesome topic! We have a Digital Engagement agency and run a blog about social media, inspiring ideas etc. A while ago we made a few images featuring the famous bird to illustrate our posts about Twitter. You can check them out here:

“In the attention economy the Twitter Guys are THE guys”:
http://www.foreplay.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/twitter_guys.jpg

“Everybody is talking, but who’s listening?”
http://www.foreplay.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/twitter_fever.gif

“20 Twitter tools for monitoring and trendspotting”
http://www.foreplay.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/twitter_tools_for_monitoring_trendsetting_by_michel_turtchin.gif

I hope you like it! =)

Cheers,

Bruno
Julien June 10th

Haha, great job. Some of them are really good.
Rahul July 9th

Great work! Congratulations! We also develop great Twitter backgrounds and graphics. Kindly visit http://twiiterarts.com to know more about us.
Blog Header Guy August 26th

I love the Elvis Bird. Thanks for the share.

And yes…the bird is the word.
Claudia Beck August 26th

Finally — the human race is gloryfing something worthwhile!

Seems not too many folks use photography yet, but it works great too.

Here’s mine to please post, scroll down in the left col.:
http://wahm-trade.com
Ezuca October 7th

Those are very creative graphics. Some of them are real fun graphics. Thanks
SEO Sheffield January 9th

Interesting read over a coffee! I do struggle to make a bird look good myself, but I am more tech than design!

I love the Twitter image; simplicity and freedom.
Vipmarts January 25th

The Bird is the word! =)

Like the list, thanks!
Philly medical lawyer April 23rd

It’s interesting to see all the different takes and versions the twitter standard graphic. Great post, thanks for the information.