All of us know that Twitter was acquired by X Corp. Now they have changed the Twitter bird icon to an X icon. Mainstream news agencies have discussed the possible future changes of Twitter with Elon Musk and have published news which clarifies that he has decided to rebrand Twitter to X and this is more than just a name change.
Presently, both x.com and twitter.com open the same website. x.com has a redirection towards twitter.com. As per Elon Musk, his motive to acquire Twitter was to materialize his plans, including promoting freedom of speech and helping the business of X Corp. We believe that old Twitter is on the way to be scrapped.
Rebranding Twitter to X and the Changes They Have Planned
As social media platforms operate using user-generated content, various types of users and business analysts reacted to this news in different ways. There is other news related to this re-branding, such as the police shut down Elon Musk’s Twitter sign removal because they had not undergone the Paperwork required for carrying out the civil engineering process. CNBC has said that Musk plans for X to expand to add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. Analysts have mentioned this move to be risky.
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Yes, X probably will focus towards finance. This probably helps them to avoid problems around various types of political news. Elon Musk himself wrote a tweet about the changes:
1 | https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1683656350046232578 |
Twitter was acquired by X Corp both to ensure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the Everything app. This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing.
The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140-character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video.
In the months to come, we will add comprehensive communications and the ability to conduct your entire financial world. The Twitter name does not make sense in that context, so we must bid adieu to the bird.
In last few months, people have noticed several changes on Twitter, including the subscription. Subscription is a method in which the followers who will pay can view the “premium content” from the creators (something like OnlyFans or deviantArt). This method of subscription has the least to do with millions of websites sharing their URLs of the latest articles or URLs of the GitHub repo. This model suits more artistic categories.
The news channels further reported that CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted that X will have features “centred in audio, video, messaging, payment/banking” to make it a “global marketplace”. You can read further from these sources:
1 2 3 | https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/24/elon-musk-risks-more-damage-to-twitter-business-after-name-change-to-x.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/musk-explains-why-hes-rebranding-twitter-to-x.html https://list23.com/3463678-elon-musk-was-mocked-by-twitter-users-when-he-changed-his-platform-s-logo-to-x-see-tweets/ |
The above image is from list23.com for illustration purpose.
What You Will Do As Our Existing Follower
We do not know what Twitter will become. We can not say everything will be bad. But Twitter will not remain as old Twitter.
Social networks often get closed (or alter their model). Understandably, the operating cost of a social network is huge. Since the year 2010, we had many followers on different social networks (including G Plus) which are not operative anymore. You can subscribe to our RSS feed from the sidebar widget (we do not send marketing emails), and bookmark the web pages you want to save as a reference so that you can remember our URL.
