New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/

New logo looks like shit compared to the old one

The original twitter bird was inspired by a third party app called Twitterific. They didn’t really use a bird, and blue, before it, IIRC.

It was also originally Twittr. Like Flickr. And Letterboxd.

And Grindr