Elon Musk renames Twitter to "X"

At the moment there is a user-suggested logo, which in theory should replace the blue bird that has defined the social network for years

On Sunday, Elon Musk, the billionaire who has owned Twitter since the fall of 2022, announced that he wanted to change the name and logo of the platform, which has been a blue bird for many years, and replace it with an “X.” And Sunday night, Musk tweeted repeatedly about it, asking his followers to suggest their own logos, and stating that if a good enough logo comes up, it will be replaced by the historic one on Monday. Then it reported that it created a redirect from x.com, which now leads to Twitter.

For now, the platform’s logo remains the old one. However, Musk changed his profile picture and official Twitter profile to the X logo with white stripes on a black background Posted by User Sawyer Merritt response to your request. Linda Iaccarino, CEO of Twitter, also posted Tweet With the same slogan and a caption saying «X is here! Let’s do it.” The logo now also appears next to the names of some accounts linked to the platform, including Musk’s and Yaccarino’s. He said that is likely to change.

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– Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) July 23, 2023

second What has been reported Written by Zoe Schaefer, journalist at newsletters platformswhich deals with Silicon Valley, Musk wrote an email to Twitter employees on Sunday telling them it would be the last mail sent from a Twitter email address and that the company would become X. Schaefer speculates that Musk’s announcement merely refers to a logo change, given that the company that owns Twitter was already renamed X Corp in March 2023.

The letter X has already been used on many occasions by Musk for other companies and projects, such as SpaceX and X.AI, the artificial intelligence company he said he wanted to create. In 1999, Musk founded a financial services company called X.com, which closed a year later after the merger that gave birth to PayPal.