Before Twitter settled on its ubiquitous blue bird logo, ... Twitter Sketches Show Would-Be Logos, Including a Middle Finger. By Slate Video Staff. Jan 22, 2013 3:41 PM.

The obscene gesture itself is far older than that, though. As many writers have pointed out, the middle finger became a symbol of the penis at least 2,500 years ago.In Aristophanes’ 423 B.C.E ...