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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Madison_rogue@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

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[–] Frz@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel at this point it would’ve made more sense to just build his own social media platform from scratch. What he’s doing is like spending billions to buy a specific used car, only to promptly replace every single part of it and throw the existing parts away. I mean sure, but then why not just buy a new car to begin with?

[–] Talaraine@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

B/C they made him Big Mad. He's enjoying this.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because he never wanted to buy Twitter

His plan was likely to act like it, then at the last minute claim some flaw (like too many bots) and that he had reluctantly decided it would be better to make his own.

If it worked he'd hurt Twitter and build up hype for his new social media.

But he's an idiot, and accidentally committed to buying it