Twitter set to exchange its iconic chook brand, Elon Musk shares new design

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk on Sunday dropped a bombshell, saying that the social media platform will quickly put off the chook brand, which has signified the model over years.

“And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds. If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow”, the social media platform’s proprietor tweeted.

This is maybe the largest overhaul by Musk since taking on the social media platform final 12 months. Twitter is not an impartial firm, because it has been merged with a newly fashioned agency named X Corp. It got here to the sunshine after Musk posted ‘X’ on his Twitter account.

The billionaire’s obsession with the letter ‘X’ just isn’t new. In April, Musk had appointed Linda Yaccarino as the brand new chief government officer. While welcoming her to the fold, he had tweeted,”Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app”.

In October final 12 months, Musk had tweeted, “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”. Since shopping for out Twitter, Musk has made radical adjustments to the microblogging platform from high to backside, together with mass layoffs, introducing paid verification plan and many others.

On Saturday, Twitter introduced that it’s going to quickly impose a restrict on the variety of direct messages to be despatched by an unverified person on the platform. “We’ll soon be implementing some changes in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages”, it tweeted.

But the customers who’ve paid verification, can simply ship DMs with none restrictions. This transfer is seen as the corporate’s technique to get extra customers signed up for Twitter Blue.