Twitter has unveiled a new logo, replacing the blue bird on its website with an X, as part of a larger rebranding effort.
The new company logo, a white X on a black background, was displayed on the social media network’s website on Monday.
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, and Linda Yaccarino, the company’s CEO, unveiled the new look for the social media platform.
Yaccarino tweeted, “X is here! Let’s do this,” and also shared a photo of the company’s San Francisco offices with the logo projected on them.
Since Musk purchased the social media platform for $44 billion last year, the new logo is the most recent change.
The billionaire had stated in a series of posts on his Twitter account on Sunday that he intended to make the change worldwide immediately, possibly as early as Monday.
“And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk wrote in a tweet.
As many users criticized the new logo, the phrase “GoodbyeTwitter”—a reference to the old logo—became popular on the platform.
Musk announced on Sunday that he wanted to change the Twitter logo and polled the platform’s millions of users as to whether they agreed with switching the site’s color scheme f rom blue to black.
Since Musk purchased Twitter in October 2022, the company has been turbulently run, and its name has changed to X Corp to reflect his vision to build a “super app” like China’s WeChat.
He claimed that purchasing Twitter would accelerate the development of X, the all-encompassing app, in October of last year.
SpaceX is the commonly used name for Musk’s rocket company, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. And in 1999, Musk established X . com, a startup that provides online financial services and is now known as PayPal.
Though it is estimated that Twitter has 200 million active users every day, it has experienced numerous technical problems ever since the tycoon acquired the so-called bird app for $44 billion in 2022 and fired the majority of its staff.
Source-Aljazeera
