Sunday, Elon Musk announced that the x.com URL will be redirected to the microblogging platform Twitter. In addition, he stated that the interm X logo will go live later that day.
Elon Musk indicated late Saturday night that he may soon replace Twitter’s blue cartoon bird logo with a more edgy logo based on the unnamed “everything app” he has long alluded to as “X.”
https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now points to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE.
Interim X logo goes live later today.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
“Soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” he tweeted around midnight, implying an end to the imagery from where the very word “tweet” stems.
“Like this but X,” the billionaire SpaceX boss said, above a picture of the Twitter bird over a black and white marbled background.
Twitter, founded in 2006 and whose name is a play on the sound of birds chattering, has used avian branding since its early days, when the company bought a stock symbol of a light blue bird for $15, according to the design website Creative Bloq.
