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 โ€œXโ€ 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: โ€œAnd soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,โ€ Musk posted a photo of a giant โ€œXโ€ projected onย Twitterโ€™s headquarters on Monday.

In another step toward reimagining the companyโ€™s image, removal of the original โ€œTwitterโ€ 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 Twitterโ€™s future as simply โ€œXโ€ is imminent. What exactly that means is still up in the air: are they still called โ€œtweets?โ€ Will users have to access a new web domain? Is something besides the logo changing? Hereโ€™s what we know so far about Twitters transition to X.

A person poses for a photo signing into the Twitter website which is now displaying the new logo for Twitter, in an office in central London, Monday July 24, 2023. Elon Musk has unveiled a new โ€œXโ€ logo to replace Twitterโ€™s famous blue bird as he follows through with a major rebranding of the the social media platform he bought for $44 billion last year. Musk had asked fans for logo ideas and chose one, which he described as minimalist Art Deco, saying it โ€œcertainly will be refined. (Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

What is Twitter called now?

Elon Musk announced in a series of tweets his intentions to do away with all remnants of the appโ€™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 Muskโ€™s, have been updated to reflect the change. The companyโ€™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…

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