Imagine yourself in Times Square, New York. You’re on a trip with your sister. Flashing billboards, cart vendors, and street performers seek your attention. A member of a nearby dance troupe breaks formation to approach you, touching your shoulder and requesting a high five. Feeling uncomfortable, you refuse, rubbing your shoulder. Then, you start to…

UPDATE: Aug. 1, 2023, 5:07 p.m. EDT X / Twitter officially announced that it filed a legal claim against the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) late Monday night. Elon Musk’s X has announced Tuesday that it had followed through on its legal threats against the Center of Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a nonprofit that…

Goodbye, giant X logo sign erected hastily atop Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Friday night. Just days after the large metal “X” logo was built to mark the new name of Elon Musk’s social media platform, workers were already deconstructing the sign, according to local news reports. It was completely removed by Monday afternoon.…

In yet another instalment of decisions-that-seem-destined-to-end-badly, Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has reinstated the account of Kanye West. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk’s 25-year obsession with ‘X’ explains what he did to Twitter West, who now goes by Ye, was suspended last December after posting a series of antisemitic tweets, including an image of…

The big changes at X, formerly known as Twitter, just keep coming this week. Users are already trying to adjust to a now-very-different-looking platform after Elon Musk renamed Twitter X and swapped out the bird logo for the 24th letter of the alphabet. Now, users will have to be more vigilant when it comes to…

Twitter has gone through some drastic changes over the past week. Elon Musk renamed the whole platform “X” and got rid of the iconic blue bird logo, just to name a few of the biggest examples. And Musk had at least one more radical idea for his platform this week: switch X to dark mode…

Elon Musk’s Twitter is now X. The rebrand, which was made official on Monday, has made headlines all week. Along with the destruction of the globally recognized Twitter brand and its iconic blue bird logo, the rebranding has also had an extremely messy rollout. For example, large swaths of the website are still branded as…

On Wednesday morning, prominent right-wing online personalities were rallying behind a fellow influencer after their account on X, formerly known as Twitter, was suddenly suspended. The account belonged to Dom Lucre, described by BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist and QAnon follower” who is “one of the biggest conspiracy accounts on Twitter,”…

Over a weekend, Elon Musk announced he was “bidding adieu” to the entire Twitter brand and calling the platform “X.” Within days, the company rolled out logo changes across the site and even took down the physical Twitter logo from its corporate headquarters in San Francisco. However, as Mashable previously pointed out, the whole rebrand…

After decades of looking for something to do with his X.com domain name, Elon Musk has finally found it. Twitter, a globally recognized brand that brought the word “tweet” into the mainstream lexicon around the world, is apparently no more.  Twitter is now X. Musk had previously talked about using Twitter to create his ultimate…