Until today, I never knew that I had been disrespecting Twitter’s logo by referring to it as “the Twitter bird.” Apparently, the bird has a name, and it’s Larry.

Twitter’s API guy Ryan Sarver tweeted this just a little while ago. It shows Twitter designer Doug Bowman talking about the evolution of the Twitter logo. Check out the name:

.@stop going over Design @ Twitter. The evolution of the Larry the Bird logo twitter.com/rsarver/status…

— Ryan Sarver (@rsarver) February 27, 2012

There’s no direct confirmation that the Bird is named Larry the Bird in honor of Boston Celtic great Larry Bird, but come one – that’s gotta be it, right?

This isn’t the first time that someone at Twitter has referred to their logo as Larry, but it’s one of the very few times. I had absolutely no idea – did you?

Can you sketch the Twitter bird (Larry) as well as @AnnCurry? bit.ly/fCv0Ct Show us what you’ve got! #sketchLarry cc/ @jimmyfallon

— Twitter (@twitter) March 2, 2011

As far as finding out what kind of little blue bird Larry is, we’re out of luck:

I’ll just assume the the Facebook “thumbs up” has a name as well. Maybe Roger, or Gene.

[Matthew Ingram via Business Insider]