Elon Musk says Twitter to vary emblem, adieu to ‘all of the birds’

Elon Musk mentioned on Sunday he was seeking to change Twitter’s emblem, tweeting: “And shortly we will bid adieu to the Twitter model and, step by step, all of the birds.”

In a put up on the positioning at 12:06 a.m. ET, the social media platform’s billionaire proprietor added: “If a ok X emblem is posted tonight, we’ll make (it) go dwell worldwide tomorrow.”

Musk posted a picture of a flickering “X”, and later in a Twitter Areas audio chat replied “Sure” when requested if the Twitter emblem will change, including that “it ought to have been performed a very long time in the past.”

Underneath Musk’s tumultuous tenure, since he purchased Twitter in October, the corporate has modified its enterprise identify to X Corp, reflecting the billionaire’s imaginative and prescient to create a “tremendous app” like China’s WeChat.

The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Twitter’s web site says its emblem, depicting a blue hen, is “our most recognizable asset.”

“That’s why we’re so protecting of it,” it added.

The hen was briefly changed in April by Dogecoin’s Shiba Inu canine, serving to drive a surge within the meme coin’s market worth.

The corporate got here beneath widespread criticism from customers and advertising and marketing professionals when Musk introduced early this month that Twitter would restrict what number of tweets per day numerous accounts can learn.

The each day limits helped within the development of Meta-owned rival service Threads, which crossed 100 million sign-ups inside 5 days of launch.

Twitter’s most up-to-date complication was a lawsuit filed on Tuesday claiming the agency owes not less than $500 million in severance pay to former workers.

Since Musk acquired it, the corporate has laid off greater than half its workforce to chop prices.