Elon Musk unveils new Twitter logo, says adieu to “all the birds” Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, has declared that the social media platfo...
Elon Musk unveils new Twitter logo, says adieu to “all the birds”
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, has declared that the social media platform will get rid of its bird emblem, change its name to X, and soon enter the payment, banking, and retail industries.
According to the design website Creative Bloq, Twitter, which was founded in 2006, gets its name from the sound of birds chirping. The firm has used avian branding ever since purchasing a stock symbol of a light blue bird for $15.
Late Sunday night, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted a photo of the company's new logo: a white X on a black background. She wrote, "X is here! Let's proceed.
Late on Sunday night, Musk also updated his profile image to the business's new logo, which he dubbed "minimalist art deco," and his Twitter bio to "X.com," which now reroutes to twitter.com.
Ahead of time, Musk had tweeted, "If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make (it) go live worldwide tomorrow."
Musk said in a tweet that a post will be referred to as "an X" under the site's new name.
As of Monday morning at 0630 GMT, the adjustments were not yet apparent on the website.
In an earlier statement, Musk identified the parent company of Twitter as the X Corporation and said that his acquisition of the social media behemoth was "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app"—a reference to the X.com business he started in 1999, a later iteration of which became the payments behemoth PayPal.
Still capable of serving as a social media platform, such an app might also offer chatting and mobile payments.
Yaccarino earlier on Sunday tweeted, "Powered by AI, X will connect us in ways we're just beginning to conceive.
Yaccarino, an NBCUniversal ad sales executive whom Musk hired last month to lead Twitter, claimed the social media site was about to enlarge its reach.
"X is the future state of unlimited interactivity -- centered on audio, video, messaging, payments/banking -- creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities," Yaccarino tweeted.