New Twitter emblem X feels very ‘Elon Musk’ By Rosie Hilder revealed 24 July 23 Fairly a departure from the pleasant blue chicken.

It has been a turbulent journey for Twitter customers since Elon Musk took over in October final 12 months, and the newest shake up issues one thing that many customers although sacred – the enduring blue chicken emblem.
Musk has tweeted a collection of posts referring to the ‘X’ and adjusted his profile image to the brand, which reveals a white define of an ‘X’ on a black background. As we define in our Twitter emblem historical past publish, Larry the chicken has been round since 2006 and appeared within the emblem since 2010. That is a very long time within the social media world.
This new ‘X’ is, in response to Musk, closest to the Artwork Deco fashion. When he posted about this, many designers replied with their very own variations of the ‘X’ in an Artwork Deco fashion, and loads of them have been extra fashionable than the model we’re getting.
If X is closest in fashion to something, it ought to, in fact, be Artwork DecoJuly 23, 2023
This kind and color of the brand remind me of the Matrix emblem, or, I will be trustworthy, of a generic automotive emblem. It has a masculine really feel that seems like an enormous departure from the pleasant chicken we all know and love. Let’s be trustworthy, it feels extra like one thing Elon Musk would love.
To create this new emblem, Musk asked his followers for concepts and seems to have chosen one by @SawyerMerritt. Let’s hope he is aware of his stuff in terms of licensing a emblem and was paid a hefty sum.
The ‘X’ is believed to level to Musk’s plans to make a one-stop-shop app just like WeChat, the place individuals will pay for numerous providers beneath one umbrella, as Twitter’s CEO Linda Yaccarino explains:
X is the longer term state of limitless interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, funds/banking – creating a worldwide market for concepts, items, providers, and alternatives. Powered by AI, X will join us all in methods we’re simply starting to think about.July 23, 2023
For the time being, we’re nonetheless seeing Larry the Hen throughout Twitter, though Twitter workers are utilizing the ‘X’ emblem of their bios. It appears this new look will not be as short-lived because the transfer to the Dogecoin emblem earlier this 12 months.