Elon Musk has unveiled a rebranding of Twitter with a big X emblem.

The firm's chief government Linda Yaccarino "tweeted" a picture of the obvious new emblem beamed on the aspect of its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

"Lights. Camera. X!" she wrote.

Musk additionally posted a picture of the brand new emblem on the corporate's HQ - and when requested what tweets would now be known as, he mentioned: "x's".

It comes after the world's richest man spent the weekend teasing an imminent rebranding of the social media platform he purchased final October for $44bn (£38bn).

The official firm identify, Twitter Inc, had already been modified to X Corp again in April.

Musk has lengthy spoken of his need to launch "X, the everything app", even earlier than buying Twitter.

He has beforehand in contrast his plan with China's WeChat, which mixes acquainted options like messaging, funds, a market, and public posts into one place.

Ms Yaccarino appeared to substantiate that was the technique on Sunday.

"X is the future of unlimited interactivity," she mentioned, centred on "audio, video, messaging, payments/banking" and "powered by AI".

Musk launched his personal synthetic intelligence start-up earlier this 12 months, dubbed xAI, which might work along with his present firms - together with Tesla and Twitter.

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