Elon Musk reveals new black and white X logo to replace Twitter's blue bird

Elon Musk has unveiled a new black and white X logo to replace Twitters famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the social media platform he bought for USD 44 billion last yearMusk replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black background and posted a picture on Monday of the design projected on Twitters San Francisco headquartersThe X started appearing on the top of the desktop version of Twitter on Monday but the bird was still dominant across the phone appMusk had asked fans for logo ideas and chose one which he described as minimalist Art Deco saying it certainly will be refinedAnd soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and gradually all the birds Musk tweeted SundayThe Xcom web domain now redirects users to Twittercom Musk saidIn response to questions about what tweets would be called when the rebranding is done Musk said they would be called XsMusk CEO of Tesla has long been fascinated with the letter The billionaire is also CEO of rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp commonly known as SpaceX And in 1999 he founded a startup called Xcom an online financial services company now known as PayPalHe calls his son with the singer Grimes whose actual name is a collection of letters and symbols XMusks Twitter purchase and rebranding are part of his strategy to create what hes dubbed an everything app similar to Chinas WeChat which combines video chats messaging streaming and paymentsLinda Yaccarino the longtime NBC Universal executive Musk tapped to be Twitter CEO in May posted the new logo and weighed in on the change writing on Twitter that X would be the future state of unlimited interactivity centered in audio video messaging paymentsbanking creating a global marketplace for ideas goods services and opportunitiesExperts however predicted the new name will confuse much of Twitters audience which has already been souring on the social media platform following a raft of Musks other changesThe site also faces new competition from Threads the new app by Facebook and Instagram parent Meta that directly targets Twitter usersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever