Twitter’s logo changed with rebrand, here’s what else Musk has in mind

Love it or hate it, Elon Musk has made another major change to Twitter.

Desktop users who have logged on since Monday likely noticed the restyle first when a simple black-and-white “X” greeted them in place of the iconic blue and white bird logo.

After announcing his plans to rebrand in a series of tweets over the weekend, saying in one: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted a photo of a giant “X” projected on Twitter’s headquarters on Monday.

In another step toward reimagining the company’s image, removal of the original “Twitter” signage on the San Francisco office building began on Monday but was stopped halfway through after local police interfered due to permit issues, reported NBC.

Though the blue bird remains temporarily hung outside the office and the mobile version of the app still heavily features the old branding, it looks like Twitter’s future as simply “X” is imminent. What exactly that means is still up in the air: are they still called “tweets?” Will users have to access a new web domain? Is something besides the logo changing? Here’s what we know so far about Twitters transition to X.

What is Twitter called now?

Elon Musk announced in a series of tweets his intentions to do away with all remnants of the app’s iconic bird-related imagery. Instead, the social media network formerly known as Twitter will be rebranded simply to X, a change that has already been reflected on desktop, where the spot once reserved for the blue and white bird logo has been replaced with a grey-scale letter X.

While the mobile version of the app still sticks to the blue-and-white color scheme and features the bird image up top, official Twitter accounts, including Musk’s, have been updated to reflect the change. The company’s official handle remains @twitter, but the display username has been changed to a capital X and the profile photo to a black square featuring a white-lined X in…