Wait. Is Twitter dead? Like, I mean gone? [UPDATE: Yes. Welcome to X.]

Twitter’s bird has passed on. This bird is no more. He’s ceased to be. He’s expired and gone to meet his maker. He’s a stiff! Bereft of life. He rests in peace! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket! He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisible!

This is an EX-microblogging platform! (And no, he’s not pining for anything.)

On Sunday (July 23), Elon Musk tweeted this.

Any second now (depending on where in the world you are), Twitter will be rebranded as “X.” If you go to X.com, it points at Twitter.com.

Gee, you think he’s spooked by the growth of Threads?

Here’s a statement from Twitter X CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Questions:

• What do we do instead of “tweeting?” “X-ing?”
• What about all the security concerns involving the letter “X” and p*rn? Yeah, it’ll be a problem.
• How much did it cost to secure the domain X.com?
• We’ve been using Twitter since 2006. How will people react to this rebranding? This is even a bigger name change than when “The Facebook” became just “Facebook.”
• If I were Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and the guy behind Twitter alternative Bluesky, I’d reclaim the Twitter bird (whose name is Larry, apparently). Will he?