Elon Musk taunts critics by lighting up Twitter’s new X logo on top of San Francisco headquarters
- Elon Musk posted photos on Twitter exhibiting the new X signal illuminated at evening
Elon Musk has taunted critics by lighting up Twitter’s new X logo on top of the corporate’s headquarters in San Francisco.
It comes simply days after the billionaire allegedly had the unique blue chook signal faraway from the constructing with out notifying safety.
Musk shocked the world this week when he revealed the new logo and moniker of the favored social media platform.
Posting on Twitter right now, the Tesla founder posted a video of the X signal illuminating the sky because it made its manner on top of San Francisco’s Twitter constructing.
Feedback on the change was met with blended evaluations, with many taking the chance to mock the swap and elimination of the well-known blue chook.
Supermarket large Aldi took a swipe on the new branding in its newest occasion of poking enjoyable at different corporations.
The UK Aldi workforce shared a picture of a ‘new’ logo, writing: ‘Now launching….AldX, (It’s the identical as Aldi we simply fancied a change)’.
Social media followers loved the joke and rushed to heap reward on the workforce for light-hearted humour.
One particular person wrote: ‘Have to confess, this social media workforce is bloody humorous. It’s positively one of the perfect company accounts. I nonetheless keep in mind the tweet about Eurovision scoring being as difficult as Tesco Clubcard costs from a couple of years again.’
Images from right now present the new X signal towering within the sky as workmen end putting in it on top of the corporate’s constructing.
The enormous signal is much more noticeable at evening – embellished with glowing bulbs round its edges.
This week police have been briefly referred to as to the HQ after a employee started tearing down letters from the constructing’s iconic signal simply at some point after Musk rebranded the platform.
Police responded to a ‘attainable unpermitted road closure’ outdoors the constructing on Monday afternoon after a person on a cherry picker was seen eradicating items of the corporate’s signal – however later mentioned no crime had been dedicated.
As of 2.30pm work appeared to have halted for unrelated causes and on one face of the signal all that remained have been the letters ‘er’ and a chook.
San Francisco Police Department officers urged the work had been licensed by Twitter however not been correctly communicated with constructing safety.
Musk defined his reasoning behind the dramatic rebrand of Twitter, saying it was time to ‘bid adieu’ to the outdated logo, telling a person on his platform: ‘Twitter was acquired by X Corp each to make sure freedom of speech and as an accelerant for X, the every thing app.’
Experts have warned that different corporations, corresponding to Twitter competitor Meta, could take difficulty with the rebrand, with X already extensively used and cited in lots of of emblems.
