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X is the future state of limitless interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’ve only just begun to imagine.23 July 2023
What’s Really the Plan Behind Twitter’s X Rebrand? Twitter CEO Linda Yacarino tries to explain the approach (above), which sounds an awful lot like the app wants to be an all-encompassing answer to WeChat.
Yacarino says messaging will be another part of the new Twitter, alongside “payments/banking” (interestingly, Musk’s parent X.com merged with PayPal in March 2000) to help create a “global marketplace”. Looks like memes may be taking a bit of an edge on Twitter…
And soon we’ll say goodbye to the Twitter brand and slowly to all the birds23 July 2023
There’s only one place to start today’s tech news — Twitter’s overnight rebranding to X. It started with yesterday’s tweet from Elon Musk, which heralded a rapid overhaul for the social media site, which saw it sport a new logo.
Over the next few hours, Musk participated in a Twitter space chat (where he said “we’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with a blowtorch”) and changed his Twitter profile to the new logo.
So what’s really going on? As usual with Musk, the method to the apparent madness is a bit unclear, but it’s likely related to Musk’s recent announcement of XAI and his desire to turn Twitter into a ubiquitous app in China’s guide to WeChat. More on that shortly…
