Twitter may sound like a weird sounding name, but earlier suggestions of the company were more worse sounding. During a research for a new book about the site, Nick Bilton unearthed the early name and logo ideas. Seriously, thank goodness they settled on Twitter.

Bilton says that the founders of Twitter bounced around a lot of ideas. Biz Stone also created some logos. And they were super ugly.

Then there's co-founder Noah Glass's effort below. What the hell is that? Looks like Ghostbusters' Slimer!

Needless to say, it was shelved in favour of Linda Gavin's rather more memorable blue logo.



Before hitting on Twitter, the team tried Twitch, Smssy and Friendstalker. [Nick Bilton]