Twitter has formally modified its emblem to ‘X’ | TechCrunch

Twitter has eliminated the enduring chicken emblem and adopted ‘X’ as its official emblem. This transfer comes after Elon Musk introduced the change over the weekend. The change is already reside on the web site.

Notably, Musk tweeted that x.com now additionally redirects to twitter.com. Within the submit, Musk additionally known as this an “interim” emblem, so we’d see one other emblem change sooner or later.

The social community may not cease at simply changing the brand. Musk mentioned the corporate will finally “bid adieu to the Twitter model and, progressively, all of the birds.”

Late Sunday, Musk modified his profile image to the brand new Twitter emblem.

The corporate’s CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted that whereas Twitter modified the best way folks conversed with one another, X will go additional and can have options “centered in audio, video, messaging, cost/banking” and make it a “international market for concepts, items, companies, and alternatives.” That feels like numerous issues.

Musk’s obsession with the letter ‘X’ is well-known. He based X.com again in 1997, which finally turned PayPal. His house startup SpaceX has ‘X’ as the brand. And most just lately, he based an AI company called X.ai. In April, the Musk-owned social community modified its legal name from Twtter Inc. to X Corp.

This isn’t the primary time Musk is altering the Twitter emblem. Earlier this yr, he briefly changed the social network’s logo to the Doge meme.

Twitter didn’t have its iconic chicken emblem throughout the preliminary years of its existence. In 2010, the corporate formally adopted the emblematic emblem known as “Larry the chicken” — it’s named after the legendary Boston Celtics basketball participant Larry Chicken.