{"id":168211,"date":"2023-07-24T04:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/elon-musk-plans-to-rebrand-twitter-as-x-an-idea-that-harkens-back-to-the-ceos-early-days-when-he-was-ousted-from-paypal"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:24:53","slug":"elon-musk-plans-to-rebrand-twitter-as-x-an-idea-that-harkens-back-to-the-ceos-early-days-when-he-was-ousted-from-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/elon-musk-plans-to-rebrand-twitter-as-x-an-idea-that-harkens-back-to-the-ceos-early-days-when-he-was-ousted-from-paypal","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk plans to rebrand Twitter as \u2018X\u2019 \u2014 an idea that harkens back to the CEO\u2019s early days when he was ousted from PayPal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-plans-to-rebrand-twitter-as-x-an-idea-that-harkens-back-to-the-ceos-early-days-when-he-was-ousted-from-paypal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk announced plans on Saturday to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-boot-twitter-brand-bid-adieu-all-the-birds-2023-7\" rel=\"\">ditch Twitter\u2019s bird logo<\/a> for an \u201cX\u201d \u2014 a reference to the CEO\u2019s vision to create an all-encompassing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-x-everything-app-twitter-details-2022-10\" rel=\"\">everything app\u201d<\/a> that may incorporate shopping and banking services, among other features.<\/p>\n<p>The domain <a href=\"http:\/\/X.com\">X.com<\/a> now redirects users to Twitter. Musk said a new \u201cinterim\u201d X logo will go live Sunday. He did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk announced plans on Saturday to ditch Twitter\u2019s bird logo for an \u201cX\u201d \u2014 a reference to the CEO\u2019s vision to create an all-encompassing \u201ceverything app\u201d that may incorporate shopping and banking services, among other features. The domain X.com now redirects users to Twitter. Musk said a new \u201cinterim\u201d X logo will go live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}