马斯克：更换推特的蓝鸟标志，用“X”替代
当地时间23日凌晨，马斯克宣布社交平台推特的蓝鸟标志将被“X”取代，同时表示新的“X”标志具体样式可能会于24日发布。
Elon Musk announced on Sunday that Twitter's new logo, an X, would go live, replacing the distinctive bird logo.
据俄罗斯卫星通讯社报道，马斯克23日在社交平台上说：“我们很快将跟推特的标志说再见，并逐渐告别所有的‘鸟’。”
"Soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds," he tweeted around midnight, implying an end to the imagery from where the very word "tweet" stems. bid adieu to：向......告别
随后，他又补充说，“如果今晚发布了足够好的X标志，明天就会让它在全球上线。”
"If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make [it] go live worldwide tomorrow," he added.
自去年10月马斯克接管推特后，该公司已经经历了一系列改革和动荡。
今年4月，推特的蓝鸟标志曾短暂地被替换为狗狗币（Dogecoin）的柴犬图案，几天后又重新换回初始图案。受此影响，加密货币狗狗币的价格短时飙升了30%以上，市值增加大约40亿美元。
加州法院的一份今年4月的文件显示，推特公司已经与一家名为“X Corp”的公司合并，这意味着推特不再作为一家独立公司而存在，而马斯克正是“X Corp”及其母公司X Holdings Corp的总裁。
Twitter "no longer exists" as a company after Elon Musk merged it with newly formed shell firm X Corp. California federal court filings from April 4 now dictate that Musk's entire Twitter stock has been transferred to X Holdings Corps.
至于马斯克对字母X的热衷要追溯到20多年前。
Musk's affinity for the letter in both his professional and personal life has been growing for 25 years.
他在1999年创立了一家名为“X.com”的互联网金融服务公司，1年后“X”公司与其竞争对手康菲尼迪公司（Confinity）合并，2001年更名为“PayPal”，并在2002年以15亿美元的价格出售给“eBay”公司，而马斯克也从中赚到近1.8亿美元的资金，使他拥有了足够的财力投资特斯拉，并建立他的太空探索公司SpaceX。
One of Musk's first ventures was known as X.com, first launched by Musk as an online banking and financial services platform in 1999, the site later merged with PayPal. Three years later, he made $165 million when the site, by then merged with PayPal, was bought by eBay.
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