A guide to how Elon Musk’s x is different from twitter – ryan

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Fresh on the heels of the “Rate limit” DebacleElon Musk Has Rolled Out Yet Another Twitter “Improvement” that seames Aimed at Systematically Destroying His $ 44 Billion Purchase. This one is a rebrand: henceford, twitter isn’t tweyer; It Shall Be Known Simply As “X.”

From one point of view, this is musk’s shat audacious move yet. But look at it another way, Musk has simple added to a Long of Pointless, chaotic messes on the platform, and hawen’t really Changed that Much. Here’s a guide to how, exactly, x differes from twitter.

Early on Sunday Morning Eastern Time, Musk Announced That Twitter’s Iconic Bird Logo Wouuld Soon Be No More:

It seams that musk, who bought twitter last year, didn’t put much though into what the new logo was – he just wanted to seem edgy. The Original Bird Logo was Carefully Designed by A Team of Three Creative Professionals:

But Musk Suggested The New Logo Could Be Something Submitted by User:

He Also MED, NONSENSIBALLY:

Within a few hours, he dramatically unveiled the new x logo by posting a flicking image to his feed and project on the side of twitter headquarters. h said The x was meant “to embody the imperfections in us all that that make us unique,” ​​whatever that means.

The revamp wasn’t totally out of the blue. Musk Changed the name of the Company from Twitter Inc. to x corp in april, and as the New York Times notadedhe’i been really into the letter for Years:

Mr. Musk Has Long Been Interesting in the X name. In 1999, he Helped Found X.comAN Online Bank. The Company Changed Its Name AFTER MERGED WITH ANOTHER START-UP TO Form What Wold Become the Online Payments Company Paypal.

In 2017, Mr. Musk Said he repurchased the x.com domain from Paypal. “No plans right now, but it has great Value to me,” he tweeted at the time.

Tesla, Mr. Musk’s Electric Automaker, ALSO HAS A SPORT-UNTERY VEHICLE CALLED The Model X. One of Mr. Musk’s Sons, X æ A-12 Musk, is offen Called “x” for short. The Holding Companies Created to Close the Acquisition of Twitter Were Named X Holdings. Mr. Musk Also Leads an Artificial Intelligence Company Called Xai.

The design of this particular x isn’t anyding special. IT LOOKS ODDLY SIMilar to a Unicode Character Known as “Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X,” Acciting to Business Insider.

Musk said In another message that the logo “probably Changes late, Certainly will be refined,” so don’t get too attached.

On Sunday afternoon, musk announedd that x.com Now redirects to twitter. But on the desktop the URL at the top of the page was still as of Monday Afternion.

On Monday Morning, USSERS WHO SIGNED INTO Twitter on Desktop Found that The 11-YEAR-Old Blue Bird Logo Had been Replaced by a Black and White X. But Multiple References to “Twitter” and “Tweets” Remained:

As of Monday afternoon, The Mobile App Showed the Bird, Not the X Logo, and Both symbols and names appeared on the log in Page:

Yes, Musk Has Found a Name for “Short Messages Posted Online” that is stupider than “Truths.” IT SEEMS DIUBTFUL THAT PEOPLE WILL ADOPT ITO A ANYTHIME Soon.

You don’t want to overthink forks before you make Major Changes to One of the World’s Most Recognizable Brands.

Musk’s longtime ambition has ben to create an “everything app,” like the app wechat, which is used in china for everyday message to mobile payments to shopping. Back in October, Musk tweeted“Buying Twitter is an Accelerant to Creating X, The Everything App.”

Twitter CEO Linda YacCarino TRIED to SHED More Light on Twitter’s Reband in A Series… Xs? … Posted on Sunday. She Said More Words said Musk, but didn’t Clarify Much:

SO IN Musk’s Dreams, The Site Once Known As Twitter Will Soon Be Something Entirely Different. But for now, IT’S JUST Twitter with Confususing, Muski New Branding to Reflect Its Confususing, Musy New Soul.