Elon Musk Claims Twitter Will Soon Be Renamed X

Goodbye Twitter, hello X?

Elon Musk, the multibillionaire who controls Twitter, said the social network he took over in October 2022 will be renamed “X” — relegating the cute little blue birdie to the scrap heap of internet history.

“Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk wrote in a late-night Saturday post. He also said the platform’s website will be run off the x.com domain name, and posted a poll asking whether it should “Change default platform color to black” (with about 75% votes in favor as of Sunday morning).

“If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make [it] go live worldwide tomorrow,” Musk tweeted (or should tat be “x’d”?). Musk about an hour later posted what appears to be a logo for X:

Musk is the most-followed user on Twitter, with 149 million followers on the platform. (Barack Obama is second, with 132 million.)

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