Twitter given new URL hours after Elon Musk hints at brand alternative

Twitter might be about to endure a rebranding after its billionaire proprietor Elon Musk introduced he was planning to swap the well-known chicken brand for an X.

Just hours after Musk took to the social media web site to announce the change, he additionally confirmed Twitter has been given a brand-new URL, marking a brand new period for the platform.

A seek for x.com on main engines like google now sends customers on to the Twitter homepage. It has prompted hypothesis a few main rebranding for the location.

Musk, who paid $44 billion for the web site, introduced the chicken brand would get replaced by an X “later today”. He additionally mentioned a “tweet” would quickly be generally known as an “X”.

Earlier Musk tweeted: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.”

It is a part of a bunch of adjustments applied by Musk since his takeover, reports the Mirror. This has included making blue ticks a paid-for characteristic, at one level limiting the variety of tweets individuals might see, and making the Tweetdeck platform quickly to be a paid-for characteristic.

Mr Musk, 52, advised Twitter customers “we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

He then tweeted an image of a possible new brand, changing the chicken that has been the face of Twitter since its basis, to a easy “X”.

The world’s second richest man has already launched a subscription service and will select to roll Twitter right into a multi-purpose app.

Swiss-army-style apps are already in existence in some nations. In China the tremendous app WeChat has over 1billion customers. On WeChat, customers can do every thing from making funds to calling a taxi.

There was some backlash to the proposed adjustments, however Mr Musk added: “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform. Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”

Changes at Twitter have been widespread, with some reporting a damaging expertise for the reason that Tesla tech mogul took over the enterprise.