Elon Musk has hinted that Twitter is ready to imminently rebrand as X, with the transfer probably taking place as quickly as tonight (July 23).
The Tesla and Area X boss took over the social media website final October, and has modified many options of the positioning in that point.
Now, he’s shared various tweets suggesting that the Twitter identify will quickly be retired, and the web site will re-launch beneath the identify X.
“Quickly we will bid adieu to the twitter model and, step by step, all of the birds,” he tweeted in a single day, happening to recommend “if a adequate X emblem is posted tonight, we’ll make go dwell worldwide tomorrow.”
And shortly we will bid adieu to the twitter model and, step by step, all of the birds
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
If a adequate X emblem is posted tonight, we’ll make go dwell worldwide tomorrow
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
Musk then tweeted right this moment that the URL X.com now redirects to twitter.com, hinting {that a} rebrand was imminent.
https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy now factors to https://t.co/AYBszklpkE.
Interim X emblem goes dwell later right this moment.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
A tweet by Zoe Schiffer of Platformer additionally tweeted that Musk had “advised Twitter workers late final night time that he’d simply despatched them the final e-mail he’d ever ship from a Twitter e-mail tackle”.
NEW: Elon Musk advised Twitter workers late final night time that he’d simply despatched them the final e-mail he’d ever ship from a Twitter e-mail tackle. He signed off with this emoji: 🫡 https://t.co/3dD8cvSb0F
— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) July 23, 2023
Final yr, Musk’s Twitter made headlines as soon as once more as he introduced that he can be eradicating all verification checkmarks, and solely issuing them to profiles that opt-in to pay for Twitter Blue subscriptions.
The choice led to backlash from numerous figures within the leisure world, with Doja Cat writing: “Having a blue tick now means there’s the next likelihood that you just’re an entire loser and that you just’re determined for validation from well-known folks.”
Controversy arose as soon as once more in Could, when Twitter’s new function for Blue subscribers –the power to add two-hour movies – was revealed to have been used for movie piracy.
The Nationwide Music Publishers Affiliation (NMAP) and its members additionally just lately issued a lawsuit towards Twitter following alleged copyright infringement.
