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  • Let's get to Twitter, because it looks like they are in for a significant makeover.

  • Over the weekend, the billionaire owner Elon Musk tweeted

  • that the social media company is getting rid of its Blue Bird logo and possibly the Twitter brand itself.

  • Bloomberg's Peter Elstrom joins us now for more.

  • So the bird has been or is about to be replaced by a simple X; run us through what the thinking is there.

  • That's... that's right; Musk has been busy over the weekend.

  • He was tweeting... he was tweeting about how he wants to change the brand "Twitter".

  • He wants to bid adieu to "the bird", as he called it.

  • And he asked for suggestions on how to change to this new X logo that he suggested.

  • So, he's got a ton of suggestions that are pouring in from all over.

  • He said if he got one that was good enough, they would change the logo on an interim basis to... to X.

  • So, that's what he is looking at at this point.

  • And he, as he said, he has a thing for... for the letter X,

  • Of course, he also runs Space X, the rocket company; at Tesla, they've got a model X.

  • And one of his earliest companies was called X; also, this was the predecessor to PayPal.

  • What he's trying to do now kind of harkens back to those early efforts where he wants to evolve Twitter from just a messaging platform.

  • He wants to be able to do payments and do audio and video and those sorts of things.

  • After Musk tweeted, the new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, weighed in

  • and laid out some of those options for what they could be looking at as they try to rebrand the company

  • and broaden what it really does from here.

  • OK, Peter, well, it's flashing up on our DAYBREAK screen.

  • And all they need to do is bring, you know, Simon Cowell out and come up with the X factor there for for the new Twitter.

  • Peter, thank you very much.

Let's get to Twitter, because it looks like they are in for a significant makeover.

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