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This Bird’s Last Tweet, Hello X
Twitter has Officially Rebranded to X, Elon’s First Step in creating “The Everything App”.
In less than a year, the Bird has been acquired, expanded upon, and ultimately extinguished to make space for the brand new thing that “The Everything App” will be.
Last night, Elon Musk was playing fast and loose with the Twitter branding, involving the Twitter (uhm… X??) audience itself in creating the new logo for X.
This tweet (xcerpt.. !?) has sent Twitter into a frenzy and I have to tell you my friends, the memes were strong that night:
Eventually, Musk settled on an Art Deco version of the old X.com logo from the 90’s.
Why X.com?
Simple, X.com was one of the first projects that Elon Musk worked on in the 90s as an online payment system, now known as PayPal. X Merged with…