Elon Musk owned Twitter introduced its new brand ‘X’ on Monday, in a big rebrand initiative, which changed the long-lasting blue hen image. The brand – a white ‘X’ observed on a black background was once observed at the community’s web site and accounts, evoking blended reactions and an ocean of memes from the netizens.
Several accounts shared a viral graphic designed to constitute an animated model of the blue hen who appeared disenchanted after being ‘fired’. “I was fired,” the picture containing the hen learn. Sharing the viral symbol, the customers bid their ultimate goodbyes to the hen.
“The bird is freed,” some other consumer echoed their sentiments.
Some customers additionally disapproved of the brand new brand and prompt that they preferred the hen image higher. Some folks additionally stated that together with the rebrand, the platform will have to additionally focal point on different spaces that want development, together with bettering the consumer revel in for its non-verified target market.
Twitter had introduced an $8 per 30 days rate for accounts in November to stay their verified standing intact at the micro-blogging web site. Subsequently, different adjustments had been presented at the platform, together with a brief cap on choice of tweets the customers can see in an afternoon, and limiting the ‘direct message’ day by day restrict at the web site for its non-verified accounts.
Idea at the back of new brand ‘X’
Amid the adjustments presented to Twitter since Musk took over it closing yr, he modified its trade title to X Corp. In October closing yr, Musk had shared his imaginative and prescient about turning Twitter into “the everything app”. “…buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” he had stated.
The new brand ‘X’ has been described by means of Musk as a “minimalist art deco,” CEO Linda Yaccarino showed.
Hashtags equivalent to ‘RIP (Rest in peace) Twitter’ and ‘X’ trended at the platform Monday because the customers additionally flooded the web site with memes to depict how they felt concerning the new brand.
Meanwhile, elaborating at the rebrand, CEO Yaccarino said that ‘X’ is the way forward for “unlimited interactivity centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking”.
Powered by means of AI, X will create an international market for concepts, items and products and services, and alternatives, connecting folks “in ways we’re just beginning to imagine,” her tweet learn.