In May of 2022, Musk said made an appearance on the All-In podcast, saying that the USA needed an ‘everything app’. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.Īnd this isn’t he first time this potential future for Twitter has been floated. X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. In a post retweeted by Musk, Yaccarino said that X will be a state for “unlimited interactivity” that will include payments, a global marketplace and more. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, took to the platform to explain the future of X.

It seems the impending logo change will be the first big step towards a total rebrand for Twitter - name and all.

Will X turn Twitter into the US version of WeChat? It finds its origins in X.com - an online financial services and e-mail payment company co-founded by Musk in 1999.īy 2000 the company had merged with competitor Confinity, which had its own money transfer service, and eventually the entire business was renamed to PayPal.īack in 2017, Musk bought the x.com domain from PayPal for ‘sentimental reasons’, which is why he has been able to use it to redirect to. The lesser-known, and older, X connection can actually be found in PayPal. In an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, he confirmed the pronunciation as ‘X-Ash-A-12’. The news broke the internet for a short time, with people wondering how to actually pronounce the name. Musk and his former partner, Grimes, also infamously named their first child together X Æ A-12. It’s also worth noting that all of the Tesla car models produced after the original Roadster (and not including the Cybertruck), have been named after the letters - S, X, Y. Musk has also named one of his Tesla vehicles after the letter - the Model X. In addition to rockets, it also operates the low-orbit Starlink satellite network which recently announced partnerships with Telstra and Optus. One of the more obvious companies is SpaceX - Musk’s spacecraft manufacturing business that launched back in 2002. Musk also joined a Twitter Spaces session titled “No one talk until we summon Elon Musk.” He confirmed the Twitter logo change during the session. “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow,” he said in another. “Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk said in one tweet. In the same tweet, Musk said that an ‘Interim X logo’ will go live ‘later today’. This included the revelation that x.com now redirects to - the address is also present on his Twitter bio. He proceeded to spend several hours intermittently tweeting about the change.

In true Musk style, he made the logo rebrand announcement via Twitter. This isn’t entirely surprising given recent changes within the business, as well as Musk’s tumultuous reign over the platform.īut looking further back, Musk’s affinity with the letter X has spanned decades and can be found in the origins of PayPal. On Sunday Elon Musk announced that Twitter will be rebranding to ‘X’.

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