Source: Elon Musk \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n Nonetheless, Musk has long since been obsessed with the letter. The billionaire launched the website and online banking provider X.com in 1999, which would later join with another company to form PayPal. Musk repurchased the X.com domain from the company in 2017 and announced in a tweet on Saturday that the new Twitter will run on it, as mentioned before. As a testimony to our earlier statement, Musk tweeted Friday night while sharing an image of himself forming an X with both of his hands whilst standing in front of Tesla Model X signs: “Not sure what subtle clues gave it away, but I like the letter X.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter’s billionaire owner, Elon Musk, has announced intentions to rebrand the social media network as “X.” The famous blue bird emblem, which has been used by Twitter since its creation in 2006, would be phased out. Musk announced the change in Twitter’s logo to a “X” in a series of tweets on Saturday night, releasing […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,1076],"tags":[3950,774,2784,3959,3958,1607,1444,1519,3949,3960,3953,3951,3955,2835,473,3954,3961,3948,3956,3957,3251,3952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18510,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18503\/revisions\/18510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}