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Twitter's bird logo is dead, replaced by X
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| Bye-bye, birdie. Credit: Twitter |
He really did it.
Shortly after Elon Musk's announcement that Twitter's bird-shaped logo will be replaced by an X-shaped logo, reflecting a name rebrand for the platform, the change has gone live.
The old Twitter logo can no longer be seen on the main site; instead, the new, X logo is proudly perched in the top left, where the bird once sat.
The change hasn't been executed very thoroughly yet; for example, Twitter's official blog and help center still prominently feature the bird-shaped logo. It appears, however, that it's just a matter of time until Twitter becomes fully X-fied.
The X-shaped logo currently in use might not end up being the final version, as Musk noted that the logo is an "interim" one. This particular logo was community created in a seemingly impromptu contest, announced by Musk on Sunday. "If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow," he tweeted (x-ed?). "And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds."
And yeah, if you're wondering, Musk think "tweets" should now be called "x's".
Apparently tasked with explaining one of the fastest rebrands in history, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted the following: "It's an exceptionally rare thing – in life or in business – that you get a second chance to make another big impression. Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square."
"X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities," she continued. "Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine. For years, fans and critics alike have pushed Twitter to dream bigger, to innovate faster, and to fulfill our great potential. X will do that and more. We’ve already started to see X take shape over the past 8 months through our rapid feature launches, but we’re just getting started," she wrote. "X will be the platform that can deliver, well….everything."
While we wait for Twitter to deliver everything, it'll be interesting to see how the site's community reacts to the erasure of the once-beloved bird. Some of the first impressions we've seen were not exactly enthusiastic.
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Lovely mate, can't wait to see the X reels and X videos, lol
ReplyDeleteI can wait, forever..🤣
ReplyDeleteJust add the i Elon, for your best friend. Or how about C for the cobalt mines that your best friend owns, that are killing children for a dollar a day, 🙄
oh, no! I can’t believe you wrote that! He’s gonna be so mad when he reads it.
DeleteAnd just look at how the left is promoting that "killing" of children...... while demanding you ignore "Sound of Freedom"
DeleteWhats that tell you about the left.
idk what sound of freedom is about BUT the radical right have spent the last two years REMOVING FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS - so that word needs to leave your tiny vocabulary.
DeleteI think it's a great name for the EX platform. I know I X'd it! Hope everyone does.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant guy Elon..he's a visionary. X is the future.
ReplyDeletecannot tell if ironic or not
DeleteWhich one of you is having any meaningful impact. Musk is an innovator and distrupter.Enjoy your sideline mongering.
Deleteenjoy your mastering of algorithmic trading…
DeleteHe's a disrupter who's lost tens of billions, because he's not a genius - he's co-opted the genius of others- then basically ruins it.
DeleteIm having a hard time believing you are upset that he lost "tens of billions" while you preach he has too much money anyway.
DeleteHow did he ruin Paypal, Space X, Tesla, etc.
moronic
DeleteHe didn't invent Tesla, two other guys did, and he bought it from them. Constant recalls in the 100s of thousands, deadly autodrive, and they're now basically plastic snap together parts - junk. Space X? An explosion on takeoff is not a success, no matter how you spin it. And I'm not upset that he's list money, he deserves to.
DeleteWhere did I preach he has too much money?
DeleteSo original..
ReplyDeleteElon Musk changes his name to Elon Mux.
ReplyDeleteBrains really isn't his Forte!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's the X bird. 🐦🦜 🐦
ReplyDeleteWell that took a lot of thought. 🤣
ReplyDeleteMy eX
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎❤️
ReplyDeleteX is where the treasure is buried. Just dig a little deeper hole, Elon.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the new name then? Who is actually twitting? Is it the platform for Exs now?
ReplyDeleteSo, I quit Twitter when he took over. This is meaningless drivel to those of us who’ve moved on.
ReplyDeleteNow, Only the Cool People are on Twitter.
DeleteWhy it reminds me of something else 😆
ReplyDeletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/spider-death-love-die-creepy-juliewierd-xUPGch7iuU4H18RObm
X gon’ give it to ya
ReplyDeleteWell instead of tweeting they’ll be Xcreting. Sounds about right.
ReplyDelete100 million break up with Twitter, they’re now known as the X
ReplyDeleteElon’s new book: How to Kill a Company in Ten Easy Steps
ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.co/images/42d05a24e839fa2867dcaf6d730cfac5/tenor.gif?c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2tfd2ViY29tbWVudHM&itemid=21700804
ReplyDeleteTwitter will become X. I've seen more innovation and originality spray painted on walls.
ReplyDeleteVery seXy Elon Mux
ReplyDeleteA logo can’t fix failed management.
ReplyDeleteSo will Phil Collins or Bill Bruford sue him for using the name Brand X?
ReplyDeleteSoon revised to X tinct
ReplyDeleteTwitter seems to be like Disney these days, there is no bottom to the continuous fall.
ReplyDeleteX or Ex, either way means former, or in the past. Or a real sleazy strip club.
ReplyDeleteThe new X logo is just perfect. It represents X’ing out all replies to tweets.
ReplyDeletethe drama of the "little bird" continues 🤣
ReplyDeleteXopied from X11 logo
ReplyDeleteLord, this is such a wining strategy
ReplyDeleteTwit-ter never made sense. Tweet? How about just calling it what it is; you posted something - not Twit-ed something. 🙃🤭
ReplyDeleteSoooo is that supposed to signify "do not enter" or potential censoring?
ReplyDeletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/tresshetalons-x-rated-tresshe-tres-she-WQTn8fPo0wgnfzOJiK
ReplyDelete“X” marks the spot? 🤔🤷🏻♂️
ReplyDeletehttps://media.tenor.co/FnL2zAy0nDsAAAAC/so-what-who-cares.gif?t=AAYBOoNj6x4FCBVr9gwL6A&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=16648338
ReplyDeletePretty bold step
ReplyDeleteso inviting .... lol. 🙁
ReplyDeleteCool logo 💯
ReplyDeleteeXit, eXtinction, X doesn't mark the spot.
ReplyDeleteSo, is it Xwitter now? 🤔
ReplyDeletehttps://media.tenor.co/7vvRk_9TeigAAAAC/bird-virus.gif?t=AAYBPSzH1goA8kYcwQNP3w&c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2s&itemid=17991385&fbclid=IwAR0s679CKLCaeiZz3IrIXB2rr2jKPOAgqahfiOq802VeXN9pHacLgBLIhIE
ReplyDeletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/FullMag-robot-boston-dynamics-dance-lfEPA0PSCDAHWe8T81
ReplyDeletePeople still use this?
ReplyDeleteI will delete all my twitter accounts.
ReplyDeleteHonestly can we give Musk props for rescuing humanity from the garbage that was Twitter, thanks for annihilating it
ReplyDeleteRIP Twitter
ReplyDeleteFrom “Tweets” to “Bleeps!” Now?
ReplyDeleteXting
ReplyDeleteGoodbye
ReplyDeleteFrom twitter to tweezers
ReplyDeleteGlad I quit Xing way before it became Xing. What a croc of…
ReplyDeleteMore reasons to x over to threads
ReplyDeleteElon and company doesn't seem to know much about photography... The new logo seems more a new series of Nikon than other thing
ReplyDeletehttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/1e/91/721e91f5591c88a8803f17158e8b6467.jpg?fbclid=IwAR1XtzWFZa2lrpf8wmvat0LipBWJ2E1BJOpqHnKEbM99rXeuHSePdQVXJMg
DeleteJust a Musk marketing campaign. Tesla has the model X plus Starlink and SpaceX. I wonder how much he paid his marketing geniuses to think this one out? 🤔
ReplyDeleteWhy not start X from scratch, save $43 billion, and just make it better than Twitch/Twitter...
ReplyDeletePay for verified content on popularity... you would be inundated, people love money.
1) bought the competition 2) saves on years of r&d 3) forces new competition to expel billions in r&d after they've lost billions pushing VR. 4) Retains his first branding from 25 years ago.
Delete5) Path to profitable status is possible after shedding employees who worked in a country club environment. Twitter was not profitable and has a horrible burn rate. Ad revenue might be down, but will rebound as viewership returns and sees how the platform changes.
years of R&D, a decent set of devs could knock up a better twitter site quite quickly.
Delete43 billion paid OUT to users instead, would result in a killer site that destroyed all competition very quickly....
that's why I'm yet to realise billionaire status..
Delete😵. The emoji is what I’m seeing in this logo change.
ReplyDeletehttps://media1.tenor.co/images/eda1910ee18af6aa9876d48f8951e8c3/tenor.gif?c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2tfd2ViY29tbWVudHM&itemid=23767476&fbclid=IwAR2VYIVzSwxw42IDO4qcgmjYLKDHyZhdviPxwuF_LqIxpay-Wue-Fb8qsmk
ReplyDeleteHe should just name it to X_X
ReplyDeleteBYE BIRDY!
ReplyDeleteI'm still gonna call it Twitter.
ReplyDeleteAs in "Wow, Twitter really sucks now that Elon owns it"… it’s now become a cesspool of hate and bigotry.
https://media1.tenor.co/images/4c640481708078c76db6217234ae65af/tenor.gif?c=VjFfZmFjZWJvb2tfd2ViY29tbWVudHM&itemid=16203018&fbclid=IwAR2a_chtwgovCTcuccwzazlhLBj25FDtPIjd7Pj4-C-A2X-hHjU0tJIhWag
So it’s an X-parrot?
ReplyDeleteIncredibly unimpressed. And I’d bet the branding company got paid at least 7 figures - I could’ve created this in less than 10 minutes for a fraction of the price!
ReplyDeleteRemember “New Coke”? This feels like that.
ReplyDeleteI hear the letter X from Sesame Street is holding a press conference later.
ReplyDeleteShould have just added the x over the Birds Eye’s . To show how he is killing the site.
ReplyDelete"killed" ( past tense)
Deletehttps://giphy.com/gifs/sick-monty-python-the-holy-grail-RuBVr0j5VOj6w
DeleteIt's not dead it's pinning for the fiords 😂
ReplyDeleteFor a one-off logo generated by at an AI driven site called Logos-logos-logos!!!.com, it has lovely plumage.
DeleteI’ll ask this once again- why does he have such a hard on for the letter X? The world may never know.
ReplyDeleteElon "I'm a graphic designer at heart" has just used a common unicode for the logo
ReplyDeleteNo update for Twitter this AM.
ReplyDeletehonestly it still has bird like
ReplyDeleteX symmetries & formation Y
I still like tweety bird better though
X it 😅
ReplyDeleteBirds aren’t real.
ReplyDeleteThey can change it to anything they want, still same clown show!
ReplyDeleteX’d out of twitter thanks for the heads up
ReplyDeleteHe's so brilliant, he took a cultural icon and turned it into mush. Super original, gO eLoN!
ReplyDeleteWonder how many millions he paid a designer for this.
ReplyDeleteLaughable
ReplyDeleteX is short for toXic. 😵
ReplyDeleteThis guy’s had this plan all along. He’s never cared about twitter, he just bought the already existing platform and millions of users to skip 4-5 years of dev on his own idea.
ReplyDeleteIt's faster to renovate an already existing house than to start building a new one from nothing.
RIP twitter (as we knew it)
Fact: Flushing 44 billion down the toilet...is pretty stupid.
Deletehis speciality is buying existing companies. None of these ideas are his
DeleteDon't Look Up
ReplyDeleteWhat a freakin weirdo… I'm trying to be nice so I don't get in Facebook jail 
ReplyDeleteRemove the " 's bird logo" from your headline.
ReplyDeleteI quit
ReplyDeleteIN OTHER WORD ITS NOT A BIRD >>>><>>>> TWITTER X @SGVERSIONEMA 🛠
ReplyDeleteTwitter is dead, but the narcissist hasn't noticed yet.
ReplyDeleteWe're both pissed and flattered
ReplyDeleteNope. It’s a Q. Even better. Lol
ReplyDeleteLooks like Musk is oproving he's better at destroying than building.
ReplyDeleteHey... It's the X window logo and you should have immediately noticed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
ReplyDeletehttps://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
ReplyDeleteX, as in PAY YOUR TAxES
ReplyDeleteBecause obviously Musk’s biggest problem with Twitter is the logo. Twat.
ReplyDeleteDon’t Tweet, eXcrete!
ReplyDeleteThat’s the dumbest logo I’ve ever seen… What kind of cracker Jack branding is he trying to pull here?
ReplyDeleteNow it's boring just like McDonald's
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1683203272147087362?
ReplyDeleteXcrement.
ReplyDeleteMusk is an idiot to throw away a internationally known brand... for nothing.
I predict an Xodus.
Right why hide the fact that you are embracing '1984' why hide it with a cute bird when the X can be modified into the lightning /\/
ReplyDeleteX marks the spot Twitter died
ReplyDelete"X" itter with the logo being a big fat pimple
ReplyDeleteNo matter… The whole world still gonna give him the bird anyway… Flipping idiot.
ReplyDeleteFitting since I used the X to delete the app.
ReplyDeleteThe ultimate logo for clancel kkkulture. Think of it as a modern Confederate flag..
ReplyDelete