Elon Musk surprised the world by announcing his decision to change Twitter's famous logo, the iconic blue bird, and adopt it as the new emblem for his platform of communications and financial transactions, now named X. Musk described this move as the application of everything, aiming to turn Twitter into a comprehensive platform for all types of interactions.

The billionaire entrepreneur plans to connect Twitter's underlying infrastructure with x.com, a web address that will function as a routing service to X. This new application will merge communication, multimedia, and fintech features, including payments and banking, to empower users to manage their entire financial world.

Twitter's CEO, Linda Yaccarino, supported Musk's review and emphasized that X will mark the beginning of a new era for the platform. However, some experts and media analysts point out that, although this move draws attention to the social platform, it is unlikely to make up for the potential billions of dollars in lost brand value due to the name change.

Musk has expressed his interest in modeling X after the successful super app WeChat by Tencent Holdings, popular in China for its wide range of services, including payments and messaging.

The exact extent of the changes and their implementation timeline is still unknown, but Musk seems determined to make X a reference platform for communications and financial transactions.