What Changes Are Coming to Twitter as It Evolves?

Twitter has undergone a significant rebranding as it is now officially known as X, owned by Elon Musk. This development comes as no surprise, as Musk had previously requested his followers to design a new logo for the platform. The chosen logo has now been implemented globally, with Musk’s profile displaying the X affiliate badge alongside the blue verification tick.

Twitter (now X) CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted as she shared the new logo: “X is here! Let’s do this.” In a later tweet, Yaccarino shared the X logo projected onto the building with the caption “Lights. Camera. X!”

What does the road map look like amid the myriad changes on the microblogging platform?

Twitter becomes X: Changes announced

While not much has been revealed about the changes coming to the new platform, Yaccarino’s Tweets suggest that it will be a super app, much like China’s WeChat. The X CEO revealed in several earlier tweets that the platform aims to shape the international social sphere by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.

Apart from being a social media platform that users can interact with, X would also provide various services such as audio, video and messaging services. It would also offer WeChat-like banking and payment services.

According to Yaccarino’s tweet, X will create “a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services and opportunities.”

Despite being announced just a few days ago, this rebranding is not a sudden change, as X’s CEO revealed in his tweets. Instead, it’s part of a transformation of the microblogging platform that began nearly 8 months ago with Musk’s takeover. Since then, several new but controversial changes have been introduced, such as removing old verification, Twitter Blue, restricting DMs, and more.

So what does the future hold? Yaccarino said: “There’s no limit to this change. X is a platform that can deliver, well….everything. @elonmusk and I look forward to working with our teams and every partner to bring X to the world.

What are tweets called?

On Twitter, messages made by users were called tweets. So what do we call them now? The user asked Musk the same question, to which Musk replied “X”. What about users who tweet? Another user tweeted asking the same question: “Are users called Xers now? can’t lie I love the sound of that.” But it seems that Musk and all other X-users will remain anonymous as he replied: “We don’t have a name”.