The Twitter bird’s days are numbered after Elon Musk said the platform will soon be rebranded.
Mr Musk bought the social media company in October for $44 billion, and in April an email sent to the organisation’s business partners said it had been renamed X Corp, but would continue to operate as Twitter.
However, in a tweet posted on Sunday morning he said: ‘And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter [sic] brand and, gradually, all the birds.’
A second post quickly followed, adding: ‘If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live [sic] worldwide tomorrow.’
A blue bird has been the face of Twitter since its launch in 2006, quickly earning it the nickname ‘the bird app’. There have been four iterations of the logo itself, the first three of which were known as ‘Larry the Bird’, named after Boston Celtics basketball player Larry T Bird. The current version is simply the ‘Twitter bird’.
In April Mr Musk briefly changed the logo to the infamous ‘dogecoin meme’. Shortly after he declared in a BBC interview that his dog Floki, a shiba inu like the dogecoin cryptocurrency logo, was the new Twitter CEO.
The move is the latest in a series of major alterations to Twitter since Mr Musk’s takeover, including the ‘verified’ blue tick status being monetised and a temporary limit at the start of July on the number of posts users were allowed to read.
Earlier this month Facebook owner Meta launched Threads, its own text-based conversation app.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said more than 30 million people had signed up to use his rival messaging app in the first 24 hours.
Twitter threatened to sue the company over alleged stolen trade secrets.
Shortly after, Mr Musk launched his new venture, xAI – a rival to ChatGPT owner OpenAI, which he co-founded.
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