The social community previously often known as Twitter has totally migrated over to X.com, proprietor Elon Musk stated on Friday.
The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and different corporations bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and introduced the rebrand to X final July.
Though the emblem and branding have been changed to “X”, the area identify remained Twitter.com till Friday.
“All core programs at the moment are on X.com,” Musk wrote on X, posting a picture of a brand of a white X on a blue circle.
Queries to Twitter.com redirected customers to X.com on Friday morning, although the unique area identify nonetheless appeared on some browsers.
Musk has repeatedly used the letter X within the branding of his corporations, starting in 1999 along with his try and arrange a web based monetary superstore referred to as X.com.
When he purchased Twitter, he arrange an organization referred to as X Corp to shut the deal. Musk has stated he needs “X” to grow to be a super-app alongside the traces of China’s WeChat.
The Chinese language app is way greater than X and weaves collectively messaging, voice and video calling, social media, cell cost, video games, information, on-line reserving and different providers.
He has additionally bolted onto X an AI chatbot referred to as “Grok”, which was launched in Europe this week.
Musk’s management of X has proved controversial.
He has fired 1000’s of workers, overseen main technical issues and reinstated accounts of right-wing conspiracy theorists, in addition to former US president Donald Trump.
European regulators have additionally begun probes into X and different social media platforms over fears of misinformation.
The EU demanded earlier this month that X clarify its resolution to chop content material moderation workers, giving the agency a deadline of Friday. AFP has contacted X for his or her response.