SOCIAL MEDIA:
Twitter has explained the change to its logo announced by the social messaging platform’s owner, US tech billionaire Elon Musk.
In his trademark style, Mr Musk himself used his Twitter account at the weekend to reveal he was replacing the company’s longstanding blue bird logo with a stylised “X”.
Mr Musk described the new version as an interim logo, leaving unanswered questions about what might replace it and when.
In a conference call with international media, a Twitter spokesperson this morning provided further information and has also explained the reasoning behind the change.
“The logo change is Mr Musk’s idea and as usual it is a brilliant piece of marketing from a sheer genius who, I can safely say without fear of contradiction or loss of employment, has taken Twitter to a position nobody involved in the company felt possible before he bought it,” the spokesperson said.
“The interim logo will be an X as Mr Musk has declared. But it will eventually change to a graphic of a big curly turd. (main picture)
“In fact the curly turd logo will be an actual photo of a rancid coil dropped by Mr Musk himself.
“That was his idea and everyone at Twitter, those who are left I should say, all applauded at the brilliance of it.
“Mr Musk views the interim X logo as a way of transitioning Twitter to the final and permanent turd logo as part of a wider overhaul of the platform.
“Other brilliant changes Mr Musk envisages is the ultimate replacement of the word ‘tweeting’ with the word ‘excreting’ to describe the action of posting or exchanging messages on the platform.
“This will lay the groundwork for changing the name of the platform itself from Twitter to Shitter.
“Mr Musk recognises that Twitter is made up overwhelmingly of message and ideas that are just total shit so he wants people to ‘excrete’ instead of ‘tweet’ by posting ‘excretions’ not ‘tweets’, which is why he has used an X as the interim logo before moving to the rancid coil.
“The X will implant in the minds of people in the Twitterverse, or I should say the Shitterverse, that the platform is made up almost entirely of excrement posted by people with shit for brains and the name-change and final turd logo will cement that idea permanently.
“It’s just a brilliant strategy isn’t it? It just goes to show what someone like the genius that is Mr Musk can do when they have a commitment to the free market and to unfettered free speech, at least for those not working for him,” the spokesperson said shortly before being fired while still on the conference call.
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