The billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, has confirmed that the social network formerly known as Twitter has fully migrated over to X.com.
Recall that Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July.
Although the logo and branding were changed to “X”, the domain name remained Twitter.com until Friday.
Confirming the change via X on Friday, May 17, the head of Tesla wrote, “All core systems are now on X.com,” posting an image of a logo of a white X on a blue circle.
Queries to Twitter.com redirected users to X.com on Friday morning, though the original domain name still appeared on some browsers.
Musk has repeatedly used the letter X in the branding of his companies, starting in 1999 with his attempt to set up an online financial superstore called X.com.
When he bought Twitter, he set up a company called X Corp to close the deal.
Musk has said he wants “X” to become a super-app along the lines of China’s WeChat.
The Chinese app is much bigger than X and weaves together messaging, voice and video calling, social media, mobile payment, games, news, online booking and other services.
He has also bolted onto X an AI chatbot called “Grok”, which was launched in Europe this week.
Musk’s leadership of X has proved controversial.
AFP
