Elon Musk: Time to say goodbye to Twitter logo

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has said helium wants to get escaped of the Twitter vertebrate logo, and regenerate it with an "X".

However, Mr Musk besides has a past of making statements that neglect to hap oregon are not serious.

Mr Musk, who has changed the sanction of the concern to X Corp, said the replacement "should person been done a agelong clip ago".

According to reports, the billionaire wants to make a "super app" called "X" which is akin to China's WeChat.

He said connected Sunday helium was looking to alteration Twitter's logo, tweeting: "And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter marque and, gradually, each the birds."

He past added: "If a bully capable X logo is posted tonight, we'll marque [it] spell unrecorded worldwide tomorrow."

Musk posted an representation of a flickering "X" connected Twitter, and aboriginal successful a Twitter Spaces audio chat, replied "Yes" erstwhile asked if the Twitter logo volition change, adding that "it should person been done a agelong clip ago".

For immoderate radical successful Asia, super-apps including India's PayTM and Indonesia's GoJek person been a captious portion of our mundane lives for the past fewer years.

The apps fto users wage for services done a concern system.

WeChat is simply a messaging and societal media level that has evolved into 1 of the region's biggest apps successful presumption of its scope of services and fig of users.

Last year, it was estimated to person 1.29 cardinal users successful China alone.

Since Mr Musk bought Twitter successful October 2022, the institution has changed its concern sanction to X Corp.

Twitter's website says its logo, depicting a bluish bird, is "our astir recognisable asset". "That's wherefore we're truthful protective of it," it added.

The steadfast temporarily replaced the logo successful April with Dogecoin's Shiba Inu dog, helping thrust a surge successful the meme coin's marketplace value.

Mr Musk was aboriginal accused of insider trading by a radical of Dogecoin investors, who claimed helium had profited from driving up Dogecoin's value.

The institution was criticised by users and marketers erstwhile Mr Musk announced earlier this period that determination would beryllium a bounds connected however galore tweets per time assorted relationship holders tin read.

The regular limits helped successful the maturation of Meta-owned rival work Threads, which had much than 100 cardinal sign-ups successful 5 days of launching.

Twitter's astir caller complication was a suit filed connected Tuesday that claimed the steadfast owes astatine slightest $500m successful severance wage to erstwhile employees.

Since Mr Musk bought it, the institution has laid disconnected much than fractional its workforce.