Twitter Rebranding Complete? ‘X’ Icon Replaces Bird Logo On Android And iOS – News18

If you replace the Twitter app on each iOS and Android, you’ll find that Elon Musk’s rebranding efforts are actually full. The Twitter app on iOS has now absolutely transitioned to exhibiting the brand new X emblem because the official icon. The app identify on iOS additionally reads as ‘X,’ and there’s no point out of Twitter.

Therefore, if an individual who has not been following what has occurred to Twitter all of a sudden searches for Twitter on the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, they’ll as an alternative discover X—which Musk is looking the “everything app.”

Many loyalists and followers of the platform previously often called Twitter had been bowled over by the sudden rebranding to X. Many are questioning if this rebranding train would be the closing straw after a sequence of controversial strikes by the billionaire.

On the opposite hand, Elon Musk appears unfazed by the modifications, and has even introduced that X has reached a “new high” of 540 million energetic month-to-month customers.

Twitter lately modified its deal with from @twitter to @x. Gene X Hwang, the earlier proprietor of the @x deal with, informed the UK Daily Telegraph that he had owned the deal with for 16 years however that Twitter had contacted him after the rebranding to tell him that it was now their property. “They simply took it,” Hwang said. He also disclosed that he did not receive any compensation from Elon Musk or any representative from X for giving up his handle @X.

Nevertheless, there have been recent reports indicating that Musk’s connection with the ‘X’ brand is a long-term commitment. According to popular author Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk’s fascination with the name X.com dates back quite some time. 

“His concept for X.com was grand. It would be a one-stop everything-store for all financial needs: banking, digital purchases, checking, credit cards, investments, and loans. Transactions would be handled instantly, with no waiting for payments to clear. His insight was that money is simply an entry into a database, and he wanted to devise a way that all transactions were securely recorded in real time,” Isaacson mentioned.