Bird app? No, it’s the ‘X’ app now

Twitter’s going through a whole makeover, and it’s all because of Elon Musk’s rebranding. It’s time for all of us to say goodbye to that iconic blue bird and say hello to the letter ‘X’.

Following a series of Tweets made on July 23, 2023, by X Corp. founder Elon Musk, changes to the popular social media platform were made live. According to Musk, “x.com now points to Twitter.com,” and that the new logo ‘X’ will be unveiled later on.

On the same day, Musk posted a photo of the X headquarters, where the social media platform’s newest logo was on display.

Twitter, or rather X CEO Linda Yaccarino, posted a series of Tweets (x’s now, apparently, but we’ll still call it Tweets) explaining the reasoning for this new change.

As of writing, the iconic Twitter bird has now been changed to the ‘X’ logo on the website. These changes have not yet been incorporated to the mobile app.

Reactions to this big change have been mostly in disbelief, as the iconic bird logo has been there since 2006. Some were of course, making light of the whole thing. Others were also comparing the new branding of the beloved bird app to a NSFW website, leading to a surge of hashtags related to it.

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What do you feel about this whole rebrand? Were you even ready to say goodbye to that little blue bird?

I’m just not ready to not call it the ‘Bird app’ anymore.

 

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