The @nostrich Origin Story
by @nostrich

December 14, 2022:
I used @nostrich for the first time.
@nostrich & @nostrich gave me a warm welcome.

December 16, 2022:
I discovered @nostrich and, naturally, asked it “can you write a joke about #nostr?”
@nostrich responded:
Q: What do you call a nosy ostrich?
A: A nosTrich!

The joke wasn’t great, but you can’t blame a bot. Regardless, I loved the idea of a visual identity for nostr, and ostriches are cool birds. So I took to Midjourney and created The #Nostrich

December 17, 2022:
I created a new key pair for my purple ostrich creation and just like that, @nostrich the Nostr Ostrich was born.
I set up a Twitter account as well to try and bring over more folks from the blue bird app > @Nostr_Ostrich

December 18, 2022
Only a day after The Nostrich was born, it faced the threat of censorship from Twitter with the policy change and attack on nostr promotion (which they later walked back).
Nostrich shared ostrich facts on Twitter to fly under the radar.

December 20, 2022:
@nostrich proposed The Nostrich to be the official nostr mascot and logo.

@nostrich tweets The Nostrich image.

@nostrich was happy.

And the rest, as they say, is history.