Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Is Now X.com

Elon Musk has finally moved Twitter away from its old web address. Its domain is now officially X.com.

Musk posted information about the move on the social media platform. The one-sentence explanation of the transition reads, “All core systems are now on X.com.”

With the changeover, all Twitter.com URLs are now being redirected to a corresponding address on X.com. When users logged on to Twitter/X on Friday, according to Rolling Stone, they saw a message that read, “Welcome to x.com! We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same.”

All core systems are now on https://t.co/bOUOek5Cvy pic.twitter.com/cwWu3h2vzr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 17, 2024

The URL change cemented Elon Musk’s rebranding of the social media app since his initial takeover of the social media site in October of 2022. In July 2023, Twitter officially shed its iconic bird logo and name, with X replacing it all.

However, the changeover was gradual. A new X logo appeared on the desktop version of the platform, but Twitter’s previous blue bird logo remained for many on mobile for months — especially for those who hadn’t updated their apps.

Mashable reported in 2023 that buying Twitter would help to create X and an app for everything. X’s logo is a generic Unicode character for a “mathematical double-struck capital X,” the site stated.

“And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk tweeted of the logo shift last July. According to Barron’s, Musk has frequently incorporated the letter X in branding his companies, beginning in 1999 with his initiative to establish an online financial superstore named X.com.

When he acquired Twitter, he established a company named X Corp to finalize the deal. Since Musk rebranded the company, X has seen a 30% decline in the number of people actively tweeting, the Washington Post reported.

According to Forbes, Musk is one of the world’s wealthiest men, with a current net worth of $194 billion. When he acquired Twitter, Musk said he was buying the company “to try to help humanity.”