Twitter Now ‘X’ on Android, iOS Platforms; Tweets Relabeled as ‘Posts’

Twitter was not too long ago rebranded as X by proprietor Elon Musk. On Friday, Musk claimed that the social media platform reached “new heights” with greater than 540 million month-to-month customers as in comparison with the reported 229 million month-to-month energetic customers in Might 2022. Musk took over the location in November 2022, and has since made a number of adjustments together with shedding nearly 50 % of the agency’s workforce and appointing Linda Yaccarino because the CEO. This rebrand is the newest amongst all of Musk’s adjustments and riptides, as Twitter continues to battle with its commercial income.

Between talks of the patent rights of the letter X, the cell utility icon for Twitter on both Android and iOS platforms has changed to ‘X’ with an replace. Now, the content material shared by customers, beforehand often known as tweets, are actually referred to as posts. The Twitter 10.1.0-beta.1 model now seems on some Android units at ‘X Beta,’ though the apk file remains to be referred to as com.twitter.android. Even on Apple’s iOS handsets, the replace seems with the brand new brand however the previous identify.

X for Android has additionally modified the “Tweet” choice on the underside proper nook of the homepage to “Put up,” which means that Musk’s concept of rebranding is to eliminate all issues previous and important of Twitter. Every step is nearer to attaining his desires of constructing “the Everything App.”

It’s possible that Musk’s rebrand practice might face just a few authorized roadblocks. The alphabet or the image X may be very extensively used and it might be a possible authorized level of battle. Living proof, its rival social media platform Facebook-parent Meta Platforms owns a 2019-registered federal trademark registered which covers a blue-and-white letter “X” for fields together with software program and social media. Even Microsoft has owned an X trademark since 2003 with regard to communications about its Xbox video-game system.

Specialists say that the businesses are prone to not sue except they really feel threatened that Twitter’s X “encroaches on model fairness they constructed within the letter.” Notably, even Meta confronted authorized backlash from funding agency Metacapital and virtual-reality firm MetaX after they modified their identify from Fb to Meta and later settled over its infinity-symbol brand.