On Sunday night, Twitter’s headquarters were lit up with the company's new ‘X’ logo, which has now replaced the company’s iconic bird on the website, and the profile badges of company employees.

Elon Musk, the company’s owner, and Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s new CEO, have both discussed plans to transform the social media platform into an “everything app” that would eventually provide payments, banking and commerce services. 

Twitter’s official company name was changed to X Corp in April 2023, but the company had not yet rebranded on the platform. 

This changed on Sunday evening, when Musk announced the company’s plans to rebrand the following day, saying that “soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”.

He added: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make [it] go live worldwide tomorrow.”

Following the announcement, the billionaire changed his profile picture to the new logo and added ‘X.com’ to his Twitter...