Elon Musk to rebrand Twitter to X, but Crypto Twitter has other ideas
Twitter users, along with the avid crypto community, may soon see a very different version of the social media app — which is set to ditch its iconic blue bird logo for an “X” as part of a major rebrand.
Crypto Twitter hasn’t been particularly thrilled with some of the changes, however.
In a series of tweets on July 23, Musk hinted that the platform will be rebranded to “X” as early as Monday, an early step in its eventual transformation to an “everything app.”
The rebrand could involve changing Twitter’s color scheme to black, the removal of Twitter’s blue bird logo, and a name change to X, according to Musk’s various tweets and a poll.
And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds
The website used to access the social media platform may also change, with Musk confirming that X.com, the online address for his 1999-founded financial services start-up that sold to PayPal, now redirecting to Twitter.
According to the Wayback Machine, Prior to the change, x.com was a mostly blank website that simply displayed the letter "x." Prior to that, it had redirected to Musk's Boring Company website. The website URL also had a long stint in the early 2000s pointing to Paypal and even had a stint displaying an eBay commerce business.
In March, Musk also established the tech firm X Corp. as Twitter’s parent company partly to realize his vision for the WeChat-like app.
However, not many Crypto Twitter users have been thrilled with the proposed changes. Twitter has been a stronghold for the crypto community with over 1 billion tweets about crypto between 2020 and 2022 according to a March Hypebeast report.
Trust Machines marketing chief Dan Held said Twitter was “iconic,” adding Musk was “insane” to rebrand to
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