This is what the tycoon said this Sunday on that platform when in a message in his style he wrote: “And soon we will say goodbye to the Twitter brand and, little by little, to all the little birds.”

“If tonight they release a good enough X logo” tomorrow they will put it “live all over the world,” he added.

This year the billionaire South African businessman, who holds U.S. and Canadian citizenship, launched an artificial intelligence company he called xAI and then dropped him from X alone.

The owner of an aerospace company, a vehicle manufacturer, a laboratory that designs brain chips and with plans to build a city in Texas, made the announcement of the change shortly after the birth of Threads, the new Meta social network seen as a rival to Twitter.

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