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TWITTER OWNER ELON Musk appears to have suggested he will replace the social media platform’s bird logo with an X.
The Tesla and SpaceX founder, who bought the company in October, tweeted this morning: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”, before quickly adding: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”.
And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
Thousands of users replied to Musk with design suggestions before the 52-year-old shared a short video of an X with a flickering background.
The blue logo, known as Larry the Bird, has been Twitter’s emblem since its creation in 2006, with the current design in use since 2012.
In April, the logo was briefly replaced with a small picture of a Shibu Inu dog, famously known as the Doge meme, in an apparent nod to the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
An email sent to Twitter’s business partners in the same month said it had been renamed as X Corp following a merger, but that the social media platform would retain its original name.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
The move is the latest in a series of major alterations to Twitter since Musk’s takeover, including the “verified” blue tick status being monetised in April and a temporary limit at the start of July on the number of posts users were allowed to read.
Facebook owner Meta launched Threads, its own text-based conversation app, earlier this month.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said more than 30 million people had signed up to use his rival messaging app in the first 24 hours.
Twitter threatened to sue the company over alleged stolen trade secrets.
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@John Doe: the 10 million who signed up for threads in the beginning were Instagram accounts. meta said anyone who has IG can use threads with same name right away so maybe the 30million are judy downloads of the app. I deleted my IG weeks ago and surely won’t use threads or any alternative to twitter, didn’t even use twitter. see no point in that.
@John Doe: Elon won’t ride you.
@Ian: I don’t want him to. I’m not gay.
@John Doe: ah you deleted your comment though bahahahaha
@Seán Ó Briain: st upid man
A better name you couldn’t give it. I no longer take part twittering.
@Ian: No I didn’t. You can’t delete your own comments, brains.
Genius move.
This will definitely recover all it’s lost share value and advertising revenue.
I’m being sarcastic though many Musksimps are probably saying the same thing unironically.
@Seamus Enright: they’re probably not, because they probably realise private companies don’t have share values.
@Brendan O’Brien: Au Contraire:
Cool,Leon is one clever guy,this re branding could see advertisers piling back in their 10s.
@HisMastersAlibi: Is Leon an incorrect autocorrect or a clever comment on re-branding?
How original
How the hell did this guy become rich?
He just arrived put of nowhere.
@Andrew Clavin: Honestly, if it wasn’t for Peter Theil PayPal would had went to crap and Musk wouldn’t have a pit to piss in.
@Pete Gilmartin: he’d still have daddy’s emerald money
@Andrew Clavin: I guess, his only hope of making Twitter a profitable venture is to keep adding X & see if it works
@Brian FitzGerald: Oh yeah, forgot about that nestegg.
@Pete Gilmartin: He’s an example of the Peter Principle
@Pete Gilmartin: Let’s not forget Tesla though. How you doing on innovation?
I am utterly convinced he goes on the drink then gets mental notions about Twitter, it’s like a bit of crack for him and he spent billions on it.
@Dave C: To be honest if i was richest person in the world i’d definitely foop up a few things after a few beers ,, just for the craic Hahaha
@Dave C: He should buy, Trump University and become a professor there,
But.. why? Not sure what angle he’s trying to clock but the X looks uninspiring and kinda boring. The blue bird looks cool and actually has meaning.
Looks like twitter is the new vessel to go see the titanic…and an expensive one at that
Twitter has become nothing but a hate-watching platform.
That bloke loves the letter X ,,,First Space X, Now Twitter X what’s next TesleX
@david finglas: XXX Business porn for billionaires?
Did he just buy it in order to run it into the ground? I haven’t bothered with Twitter for years. Much more fun to be had here on the Journal App, why bother with Twitter!
It’s the closest shape he could find to a swastika
A pair of scissors cutting some thread would be funny?
Changing the twitter logo to an X? I’m shocked, appalled and outraged! Outraged, I tells ya!
… that this is considered “news”…
What’s wrong with a bird?
@Gerry Johnson: Absolutely nothing ,, Love them when it’s a Chicken Fillet Baguette with mayo and extra cheese
So it’s basically it’s going to be a new platform to contact your X Partner
X that little sign of affection will now become the sign of misguided hate.
That’s how most of its users sign their name…
Does anyone really care?
When I write the word twit, “this may be perceived as toxic” appears. So if one wants to write, they become a writer, if one wants to run, they’re a runner, so the converse can apply – if one wants to use twitter, then then they must be a twit.
@The Irish love this shy….: and if one wants to become a potter those this make them a ……
@Lorne Malvo: *does
Why do I want to grap the elon thing by the ears and sink my teeth in to its nose
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