About a week ago, the Twitter rebrand started. Elon Musk kicked off a rebrand to ‘X’. Little by little, Twitter branding is going away in all shapes and forms. Following a new logo, name, and handles, X has also found a new name for Tweets.
Tweets now have a new name, as the rebrand continues
So, what are they called? Xs? As that’s one of the names Elon Musk considered, or at least joked about. Well, no. That would be too much, even for Musk. Tweets are now called ‘posts’, which makes sense. Do note that this change is not visible to everyone just yet, as it’s still tied to a beta version of the app. It’s coming to the stable channel soon, though.
That is basically the most generic name that X could have picked, and also one that best describes tweets. Many would say that the ‘tweets’ name was preferred, and well-known for the brand, and that’s true.
When people said that someone tweeted, it was easily recognizable what they meant. Elon Musk decided to ditch everything Twitter brand related, though, and that includes tweets too. So, now we have a new name.
The ‘X’ name has also landed on Android
In addition to that, the ‘X’ name now landed on Android too. The logo arrived earlier, and so did some other changes, but we had to wait a bit for the new name to become available.
The main app will be called ‘X’, while the beta app will be called ‘X Beta’, as expected. The app package name, however, is still com.twitter.android, at least it was at the time of writing this article.
That is also not as likely to change. Why? Well, because X would need a brand new Play Store listing, which is not likely to happen, but who knows.
We’re set to see more changes soon. The ‘Dim’ dark mode option is also going away, as only light and dark (OLED dark) modes will remain.
2023-07-31 15:13:30