Over the weekend, millions of (now formerly) Twitter users called up their feeds, and for the first time in 13 years, a cerulean feathered mainstay wasn’t there to greet them.
When Elon Musk announced Sunday that he was changing the familiar Twitter logo, along with the name of the social media platform itself, to a white “X” on a black background, the outcry went beyond the usual backlash when a company tweaks its branding. Tech media outlets wrote obituaries for the bird logo, with illustrations showing it feet-up with the new X logo over its eyes.
To many of the platform’s users, the confusion around the change,…
