Twitter is officially dead as Elon Musk changes name to X

"Bye-bye to all the birds!" That's the gist of Elon Musk's latest controversial Twitter decision. The not-CEO announced over the weekend that Twitter will no longer be called Twitter, even though most people will still call it that. Musk changed the social network's name from Twitter to X, putting to good use that X.com address he got back from Paypal a few years ago. And Musk said an X logo would replace Twitter's iconic blue bird logo. Because, of course.

Nobody could have predicted last year that Elon Musk would pay $44 billion for one of the most important social networks in town only to slowly kill it. But it happened. And the name change to X is the final nail in Twitter's coffin. It's still unclear why Musk is so adamant about ruining this service. Or whether his dream of turning Twitter into the everything app will work. Or whether there's any strategy here at all. But Twitter just made it even easier for Threads to take over.

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