Twitter Sign Removal at X’s HQ Hits a Giant Municipal Snag as a War With Meta Around the New Label Now Appears Inevitable
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Ever since Elon Musk riled up social media over the weekend with his unexpected rebranding of Twitter to X, one fast-paced development after another keeps hitting the airwaves. In the latest tidbit, the Twitter sign removal at X’s HQ has hit a huge snag, and Meta could potentially ruin Elon Musk’s attempt to relabel the global town square in his own image.
As we noted in an earlier post today, Elon Musk had declared over the weekend that the Twitter logo would be removed from the company’s HQ using “blow torches.”
Welp, @twitter name so coming off the building right now but @elonmusk didn’t get permit for the equipment on the street so @SFPD is shutting it down. pic.twitter.com/CFpggWwhhf
— Wayne Sutton (@waynesutton) July 24, 2023
Well, it appears that the signpost removal was commenced without prior authorization. Unsurprisingly, the San Francisco Police Department has now shut down the entire operation, as per the anecdotal evidence that is hitting the airwaves.
In another bit of headache that is brewing for Elon Musk, Meta now appears to be in a position to challenge Twitter’s X rebranding.
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been locked in an intense bout of one-upmanship ever since Meta launched the Threads app, widely believed to be a Twitter/X clone. In recent days, however, the Threads management has taken pains to distance the app from politics and news-related topics, bestowing the new social media platform with a much blander profile. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the Threads app keeps losing users.
Coming back, the bad blood between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is so
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