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As if Twitter hasn’t had enough changes, Elon Musk is announcing that he’s changing the name of the social media platform to X.
In October 2022 after months of negotiations, Elon Musk was forced to stick to his word and purchase Twitter, the social media platform near and dear to many hearts. Since then the changes he’s made have been frequent including one where Musk rebranded the coveted blue check system into a paid subscription model. Now anyone can have a blue check by their name for less than the price of a pizza. Just last month, he announced those who won’t pay for a Blue subscription would be limited in tweets, DMs, and retweets and now a new change is afoot.
And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
According to TMZ, Elon has the biggest change of all rolling out soon and will reportedly retire its signature bird logo and name for good. The platform will now be named X. What that stands for has yet to be revealed, but it looks like Musk is totally serious about the rename.
Like this but X pic.twitter.com/PRLMMA2lYl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 23, 2023
The change will be coming soon despite uproar from loyal Twitter users. Although people are none too please about the rebrand, they’re still cracking jokes about the X name debacle.
Twitter joining the Nation Of Islam https://t.co/1XfWbKdeYt pic.twitter.com/HRcbyEnnpH
— Jared X (@Jayleejnr) July 24, 2023
His mama named him Twitter, ima call him Twitter https://t.co/V1TcvJ2ea6 pic.twitter.com/fASTWrcOGG
— General Booty 🇨🇲 (@big_hero_chris) July 23, 2023
The owner of xvideos trying to figure out why their website traffic went up from 10,000 people to 3million people in the last hour 😂 pic.twitter.com/D7CWjOnEiK
— SSJ4 goku 💫🐐 (@Dro2H) July 23, 2023