Elon Musk says he may exchange Twitter’s blue chook brand by Monday – as he pushes forward with plans to rebrand the social community as X.
In a sequence of posts on his account, the billionaire mentioned he deliberate to “bid adieu” to the Twitter model and “gradually, all the birds”.
The Tesla and SpaceX boss additionally shared a picture of him making an X signal together with his arms, and a brief promotional video of a flashing X brand.
It will likely be Mr Musk’s most important change to the social media web site since he purchased the platform for $44bn (£38bn) in October final 12 months.
But the change has been a very long time coming from the entrepreneur, who touted his plans for launching “X, the everything app” even earlier than buying Twitter.
His concept is to mix messaging, social media, funds and an absence of reliance on advert income, into one tremendous app, much like the Chinese WeChat.
Teasing the launch of X in a sequence of posts on Twitter, he wrote: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.
“If a ok X brand is posted tonight, we’ll make go dwell worldwide tomorrow.”
He then shared an image of a black and white model of Twitter’s chook brand – as soon as named “Larry T Bird” by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone – with the remark: “Like this, but X.”
An hour later, Mr Musk shared a brief video of an X brand.
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Mr Musk’s transfer to alter Twitter’s brand to X comes as Twitter faces competitors from Meta’s new app, Threads, which was launched earlier this month.
Twitter responded by threatening to sue its rival tech agency – the proprietor of Facebook and Instagram – over alleged copyright breaches.
Mr Musk additionally just lately launched his long-awaited synthetic intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to construct a substitute for ChatGPT.
Source: information.sky.com”