{"id":96284,"date":"2023-07-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=96284"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:11:45","slug":"twitter-rebrands-to-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/twitter-rebrands-to-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter rebrands to X&#8230; just X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">Twitter are gradually turning everything Twitter and bird-related on the social networking site to the letter X.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter has changed the bird logo in the top left corner of the site to an interim user-submitted &#8220;X&#8221; logo, along with many <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\">official Twitter profiles,<\/a> which have changed their names and display pictures to the minimalistic white &#8220;X&#8221; on a plain black background. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/\">x.com now also redirects to twitter.com.<\/a> The announcement was made recently by owner and CTO Elon Musk, who Tweeted (or Xed?) many, many times about the update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwcbqMnQtA\">pic.twitter.com\/IwcbqMnQtA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1682978324375543808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon has long been a fan of the letter. 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