• Elon Musk: Twitter’s blue bird to replace with ‘X’ logo

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    Elon Musk: Twitter’s blue bird to replace with ‘X’ logo
    He posted a video highlighting the 'X' design, which is expected to replace the present Twitter bird logo...

    Digital Desk: Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter declared on Sunday that he will shortly be changing the blue bird logo of the microblogging site 'Twitter' with the 'X' logo. Musk wrote in a tweet, "Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform. Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!" "And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds."

    "If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow," Musk added. He further stated, "To embody the imperfections in us all that make us unique."


    Musk followed up by posting a photo of the blue bird logo on a black background along with the caption, "Like this but X." He posted a video highlighting the 'X' design, which is expected to replace the present Twitter bird logo. He tweeted, "Deus X."

    Several users expressed their thoughts on Musk's decision. While one user said, "Don't make the mistake Zuck did with Oculus, killing its goodwill and making it Facebook. You will make the site entirely about you then, and dial the tribalism to 100 per cent unnecessarily. Unforced error."

    Another posted, "So then we will X our reply instead of Tweet it?" This announcement came after Musk on July 12 launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) company called xAI that aims to "understand the true nature of the universe".

    Members of the team under Musk's direction had previously worked at OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Google's DeepMind, among other well-known AI companies.

    Meanwhile, in April this year, Twitter's owner replaced the bluebird site logo with the "Doge" meme. Musk posted a tweet,  "As promised" and a screenshot of a discussion he had with a user last year in which they requested that he buy Twitter and replace the bird-and-bird icons with a doge.