Bye Bye Tweets, Postings Are Now To Be Called 'Xs'

Elon Musk suggested that tweets will be called "X's" amid the platform's rebrand.

"So now that Twitter has been rebranded to X, what are tweets called now?" Sawyer Merritt said in a tweet. Musk replied: "X’s."

"Instead of retweet, what’s the new name? ReX’d?" asked Tesla Owners Silicon Valley on the platform.

"That whole concept should be rethought," Musk said. 

Musk's replies came as social media users reacted to design changes – including replacing the classic bird logo with the Musk X logo.

While revisions led to some harsh reaction – and the platform Mastodon trending once again – the bird logo remains on Twitter's mobile version for now, reports Fox Business. 

"Twitter could rebrand to a donkey and I’d still scroll for 6 hours a day," Jonah Katz, an X engineer, said.

The Tesla chief explained further in a separate exchange that Twitter was acquired by his X Corp. to "ensure freedom of speech" and "as an accelerant for X, the everything app." 

"This is not simply a company renaming itself, but doing the same thing. The Twitter name made sense when it was just 140 character messages going back and forth – like birds tweeting – but now you can post almost anything, including several hours of video," Musk said.