Elon Musk shares what he now wants you to call a ‘tweet’
Published on Jul 25, 2023 at 10:15 AM (UTC+4)
by Kate Bain
Last updated on Jul 26, 2023 at 11:52 AM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Kate Bain
Now Twitter’s officially called X, people are confused about what they should be calling ‘tweets’.
But the man behind the rebrand has now cleared that up.
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‘So, now that Twitter has been rebranded to X, what are tweets called now?’ a user asked.
Elon Musk replied with three characters, ‘X’s’.
After his announcement, the team at Twitter ushered in the new image pretty quickly.
The X logo was projected onto the headquarters in San Francisco and Elon Musk was using his 149 million followers to fan the flames online.
“Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand, and, gradually, all the birds,” he said.
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Users have since taken to the platform to tweet (X?) their thoughts.
A Mark Zuckerberg parody account swooped in, joking he’d “see you all at Threads” and put forward a suggestion for the new X logo.
Naturally, a lot of people were asking the same question: “So if we are not going to ‘tweet’, what will we be doing?”.
Suggestions ranged from practical to pretty outrageous.
“I just sent an X, Did you read my X, Shh I’m Xing. Makes everything a lot easier actually,” one said.
Someone proposed calling it “X-crementing” while another said they’d probably just be “going outside to find something else to do”.
Some meme accounts predicted the rebrand would be pretty damaging for the site.
The powers that be at Twitter are holding firm, insisting the rebrand will be an exciting move for the company.
“Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate,” the company’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino said.
“Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”
The rebrand to X follows in the footsteps of some of Musk’s other ventures including the X credit card, Tesla Model X and even his son, X Æ A-12.
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Kate is Lead Editor, overseeing coverage across automotive, tech, and lifestyle content on the site. She has more than 10 years’ experience as a journalist and news editor, having worked across a range of major publications including News Corp, Daily Mail Australia, and Sky News. Kate holds a Bachelor of Business Management from University of Queensland and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from Queensland University of Technology. She has been with Supercar Blondie since 2020 and played a key role in establishing supercarblondie.com as a leading automotive news destination.
