Twitter has modified its model and brand from its well-known blue hen to “X”.

The brand new white X on a black background has changed the blue hen on the desktop model of the social community, though is but to seem on the cell app.

“Tweets” will even get replaced, in line with Twitter’s proprietor Elon Musk, and posts will probably be known as “x’s”.

The billionaire modified his profile image to the brand new brand and added “X.com” to his Twitter bio.

Mr Musk needs to create a “tremendous app” known as X – his imaginative and prescient for a brand new sort of social media platform that he has been speaking about creating for months.

On Sunday, the billionaire stated he was trying to change Twitter’s brand, tweeting: “And shortly we will bid adieu to the Twitter model and, progressively, all of the birds.”

He then shared an image of the brand new X branding projected onto the facet of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

Mr Musk, who has modified the title of the enterprise to X Corp, stated the substitute “ought to have been accomplished a very long time in the past”.

He posted a picture of a flickering X on Twitter, and later in a Twitter Areas audio chat, replied “Sure” when requested if the Twitter brand would change.

Ms Yaccarino wrote on the platform that the rebrand was an thrilling new alternative.

“Twitter made one large impression and altered the best way we talk,” she stated.

“Now, X will go additional, remodeling the worldwide city sq..”

The hen known as Larry which Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone stated, in 2011, is a tribute to basketball star and Boston Celtics legend Larry Hen.

Folks took to Twitter to mourn the lack of the brand, together with Martin Grasser who designed it in 2012.

“At this time we are saying goodbye to this nice blue hen,” he stated. Later the tweet was shared by Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s best-known co-founder.

Commenting on the announcement, Model professional Ian Humphris, CEO and founder at Nokamo Consulting says: “Does flipping the hen at Twitter’s distinctive brand break all of the fairness guidelines? Ordinarily, sure. However the keyboard warriors waving their How Manufacturers Develop ought to see it from Elon’s perspective. Presently the platform is a 2D chat room with a haemorrhaging P&L, however the ambition is to be the subsequent WeChat super-app. If you’ve landed a rocket vertically, you perceive that generally revolution, not evolution, is the way you carry the market to heel.”