After taking up Twitter, Elon Musk made a number of adjustments to the platform. Nevertheless, most of those adjustments have been restricted to the coverage aspect of the platform. However now, Musk is lastly prepared to vary the title and the brand of the platform.
In a tweet posted early this morning, Twitter-owner knowledgeable customers that X.com now redirects to Twitter and an interim X emblem will exchange Twitter hen later immediately.
Musk mentioned, “X.com now factors to twitter.com. Interim X emblem goes dwell later immediately”.
https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now factors to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE.
Interim X emblem goes dwell later immediately.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
Twitter-owner first tweeted about his plan Sunday morning and did so for hours. In a sequence of tweets he knowledgeable Twitter customers that Twitter can be rebranded to X. He began by saying, “And shortly we will bid adieu to the twitter model and, progressively, all of the birds”.
And shortly we will bid adieu to the twitter model and, progressively, all of the birds
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
He requested customers to recommend an X emblem that can exchange the Twitter hen. “if a ok X emblem is posted tonight, we’ll make go dwell worldwide tomorrow,” Musk tweeted on Sunday.
Musk even participated in a Twitter Areas session titled “Nobody speak till we summon Elon Musk,” and remained quiet for almost 60 minutes earlier than talking up and saying he would change Twitter’s emblem the subsequent day, saying “we’re slicing the Twitter emblem from the constructing with blowtorches.”
We nonetheless don’t know what the interim Twitter emblem will appear to be however Musk has a pinned GIF of X emblem on his Twitter profile, which was posted by a Twitter consumer Sawyer Merritt. The brand is from Merritt’s discontinued podcast, and he provided it to Musk.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
We expect many different adjustments to the platform are additionally within the pipeline and we may even see fee/banking providers built-in into the platform sooner or later. The prediction is predicated on a tweet from Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino the place she mentioned, “X is the long run state of limitless interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, funds/banking – creating a world market for concepts, items, providers, and alternatives. Powered by AI, X will join us all in methods we’re simply starting to think about”. The identical tweet was additionally retweeted by Elon Musk.
X is the long run state of limitless interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, funds/banking – creating a world market for concepts, items, providers, and alternatives. Powered by AI, X will join us all in methods we’re simply starting to think about.
— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) July 23, 2023
Musk emailed Twitter staff final night time saying the corporate would change to X, and that it was his last electronic mail from a Twitter account, based on a Threads put up by Platformer managing editor Zoe Schiffer, as reported by The Verge. She additionally mentioned she thinks he meant the brand since Twitter’s enterprise had already been rebranded as X corp.
Musk and the letter ‘X’
The letter “X” has been part of nearly the whole lot Musk has labored on for the final 20-plus years. Paypal, the banking startup he co-founded in 1999 was known as x.com and his recently-announced Ai enterprise known as xAI. Additionally it is in his SpaceX firm title and the title for the Tesla SUV.
Twitter’s guardian firm was renamed X Corp in April.