New Delhi: Ever since Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter, another major change has been made in Twitter. This time Elon Musk (Elon Musk) himself has changed the logo of Twitter (Twitter Logo). That is, now the blue bird has disappeared from Twitter. Users are very surprised after this change. Because, Twitter has made ‘Doggy’ as its new logo. Twitter owner Elon Musk has also tweeted about this, after which it is believed that doggy will be the new logo of Twitter.
In fact, from Monday night, users started seeing Doggy instead of Blue Bird on their Twitter accounts. Users were surprised to see this logo. They started asking each other questions about whether everyone saw the doggie on the Twitter logo. In no time, #DOGE started trending on Twitter. After that, users thought that someone had hacked Twitter. But shortly after this, Elon Musk sent a tweet, which made it clear that Twitter had changed its logo.
Musk tweeted a picture of Doggy driving
Elon Musk tweeted a photo at around 12:20pm on Tuesday. In which a doggy is sitting on the driving seat of the car and is showing his license to the traffic police. This license features a photo of a blue bird (the old Twitter logo). After which Doggy is telling the traffic police, “This is an old photo”. After this tweet from Musk, various speculations on Twitter came to an end and it became clear that Elon Musk has changed the logo.
Musk had previously hinted about ‘Doggie’
Let us tell you that Elon Musk has already given hints about Doggie. He tweeted a photo in February this year. “Twitter’s new CEO is awesome,” Musk wrote in his caption. In the photo, a dog was sitting on the Twitter CEO’s chair. On the table in front of him was a paper with the dog’s name Floki and his post Chief Executive Officer written below. On this paper was the logo of Twitter i.e. Blue Bird. However, no one thought then that Musk was going to change Twitter’s age-old logo.
Has Elon Musk fulfilled his promise?
Elon Musk has made another tweet after changing the Twitter logo. In which he wrote, ‘As promised. In fact, in this tweet, Musk also shared a screenshot, which is from an old chat dated March 26. In the post made in this screenshot, Musk asks if there is a need for a new platform. A user named Chairman commented on it and wrote that buy Twitter and replace its blue bird logo with a doggy.
How did the blue bird become Twitter’s logo?
Twitter was launched in July 2006. It was founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. The founders of Twitter said that it is a loud space platform and the bird is considered a symbol of peace. That is why its logo was kept like this. Blue Bird’s name is Larry T Bird. Which was named after the famous basketball player Larry Bird. The original Twitter logo was designed by Simon Oxley. which he offered to sell on the iStock website. The logo was purchased by Twitter for $15.
Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion
Elon Musk bought microblogging site Twitter last year. For this he made a deal of 44 billion dollars. It offered to buy the social media platform for $44 billion at $54.2 per share. But then due to spam and fake accounts, they stopped that deal. Although Musk was trying to back out of the deal, he completed the deal in time after the matter reached court.
After the deal, CEO Parag Agarwal took over as CEO
Ever since the Twitter deal, Twitter has been constantly changing. Along with the Twitter deal, he fired several top executives from the company, including CEO Parag Agarwal. After this he fired a large number of employees and asked the remaining employees to do more work. The change in the company’s management also affected Twitter India. First, Musk fired nearly 90 percent of Twitter employees working in India. After that, it also closed its offices in Delhi and Mumbai. It was decided to run Twitter’s office in Bangalore.
Why was Parag Aggarwal sacked?
Musk accused Twitter CEO Parag Aggarwal and CFO Ned Segal of misleading him and Twitter investors about the number of fake accounts on the social media platform. Agarwal and Segal were present in Elon Musk’s office when the deal with Twitter was finalized. After this he was thrown out of the office. However, there has been no statement from Twitter, Elon Musk or any official regarding this.
Musk launched a paid service for Blue Tick
After becoming the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk made the biggest change and launched a paid service called Twitter Blue for Blue Tick. After which users will now be able to purchase Blue Tick Verification at a monthly cost of $8. It was said that Twitter could not even pay the rent for its offices in San Francisco and London. Because of this many contractors also filed a case against the company. The company has been running at a loss for a long time. With all these costs in mind, Musk launched a paid service. Employees were also retrenched. Different colored ticks are given on Twitter. A gold checkmark is given for a company, while a gray checkmark is given for a government. At the same time, blue ticks are still being issued for the individual.