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Violate Twitter Brand Guidelines
- sparknlaunch 14y agoWhat 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.html http://blog.twitter.com/2012/06/taking-flight-twitterbird.ht...
- mortenjorck 14y agoI'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.
- spicyj 14y agoI am unsure why I find this hilarious.
- adventureful 14y agoI think it's the can't-un-see Batman logo.
- rjsamson 14y agoBatman!
- gilrain 14y agoPress 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 14y agoThey'll have to add that to the unit tests.
- Foy 14y agoPress multiply ~30 times. Press disco. Now spam rotate. :) Disco party!
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- shawndellysse 14y agoLoad the page, enter this in the address bar: javascript:setInterval(function () { $('#btn_rotate').click(); }, 400);setInterval(function () { $('#btn_multiply').click(); }, 300);$('#btn_disco').click(); setInterval(function () { $('#btn_disco').click(); $('#btn_disco').click(); }, 300); Epileptic Psychedelic dance party!
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- 3mpach3r 14y agoUmmm... Why?
- AnthonyJoseph 14y agoWhy not?
- planetguy 14y agoTo, like, fight the power, man.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoI don't understand any of it, but I love it.
- labanux 14y agoNothing is violated.. (well, if you're using IE 8)
- ricardobeat 14y agoMaybe 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.
- shortformblog 14y agoI 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 14y agoI 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.
- danilocampos 14y agoTwitter is well served to defend their trademark against dilution, perhaps, but I'm not sure that the law requires they protect it against bad design.
- tikhonj 14y agoI'm pretty sure that these guidelines are exactly about protecting against dilution. I think the logic is as follows--the actual Twitter logo (and, consequently, trademark) is not just a bird, it's that specific bird, in that orientation and that color. Allowing anybody to do anything with it would dilute it. And so they must protect against this. For what it's worth, I've certainly seen documents like this from other companies. Based on these observations (rather than the actual law :/), I think that what they're doing is part of protecting it from dilution.
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- bwei 14y agoNice.
- franze 14y agouiuiuiui https://twitter.com/about/logos https://twitter.com/about/logos someone at twitter must have had to much time at his (or her) hands.
- natesm 14y agoThe favicon on that page violates the brand guidelines.
- mark_story 14y agoAs does the MacOS client available in the App Store. http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12
- pdeuchler 14y agoMy favorite: "Don't: Copy our look and feel, as this could create user confusion." Ummmmm... https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoDoesn't work in Mobile Safari. (Does it use legacy technologies like Flash or Java?)
- iclelland 14y agoPinch to zoom out. The bird is probably off-screen.
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoNope.
- joshschreuder 14y agoThe bird is scrolled off to the right on my iPhone.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoWorks fine here in the iPad (both in Safari and another browser).
- xiaoma 14y agoJava 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.
- eridius 14y agoIt's not just mobile safari. Mobile in general doesn't support Flash.
- xiaoma 14y agoAndroid has supported it since v 2.2 (at least 3 years since HTC Hero), and I've used it on Samsung, Motorola and HTC devices. Blackberries also have a deep implementation of AIR. Are there actually any higher-end phones or tablets made by anyone other than Apple that don't support flash? I'm genuinely curious since I love to play on kongregate.com during commutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2WYOkkp_g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2WYOkkp_g https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.flashplayer&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.flas...
- vini 14y agovery good, I laughed a lot.
- hammock 14y agoIt 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?
- twodayslate 14y agoScrollbars - Crazy right?
- roryokane 14y agoOn Mac OS X Lion, in Safari, scroll bars are hidden by default. They are only shown when you start to scroll, using either the arrow keys or the two-finger-drag gesture. So if the page looks complete and you don't try to scroll because of that, you have no indication that there is more to the page. Edit: the scroll bar is also shown briefly when the page finishes loading.
- DigitalSea 14y agoEveryday I'm violatin'
- davidtyleryork 14y agoListen to this and keep clicking Disco for awesomeness :D http://soundcloud.com/wolfganggartner/flexx-teaser http://soundcloud.com/wolfganggartner/flexx-teaser
- ocamlmycaml 14y agoIf you rotate the bird 180 degrees and add the chirp, you get a farting bird.
- wensing 14y ago"don't copy our look and feel" https://twitter.com/about/logos#visual-design https://twitter.com/about/logos#visual-design Uh, like bootstrap.js? :)
- roflcoptertog 14y agorule 34?