Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Elon Musk’s decades-long ‘X’ obsession is behind Twitter rebrand
Elon Musk rolled out a complete rebrand of Twitter as “X” — part of his obsession with the letter and his vision for an "everything app" that dates back to his PayPal days.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readElon Musk rolled out a complete rebrand of Twitter as “X” — part of his obsession with the letter and his vision for an "everything app" that dates back to his PayPal days.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Angie Perrin
Producer, Press Play
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Jill Lepore
professor of history at Harvard University, staff writer at the New Yorker, and host of the podcasts “The Last Archive” and “Elon Musk: The Evening Rocket.”
The full episode
1 of 4Gift cards to keep Californians off meth: Effective or a bandaid?- 0:00Elon Musk’s decades-long ‘X’ obsession is behind Twitter rebrandYou’re reading this
- 16:21Gift cards as incentive to stop using meth: CA tests new program
- 24:42Russian campaign to destroy Mariupol: See this first-person account
- 40:19A guide to Mexico City’s food, culture, evolution