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'My Twitter' trends as users mourn loss of the iconic blue bird

2025-04-27 02:26:58

This weekend, the blue Twitter bird app icon was replaced by a black and white "X." Over the past few months, we've all coped as the app slowly transformed into Elon Musk's own personal Mojo Dojo Casa House. But for a lot of users, having that little blue icon replaced with something completely new was enough to finally send them spiraling, for real.

More than 1.3 million tweets (X's?) using the phrase "my Twitter" have been posted over the past 48 hours as users work through the five stages of grief.

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Step 1: Denial

Step 2: Anger

Step 3: Bargaining

Step 4: Depression

Step 5: Acceptance

And introducing a new 6th step: Gloating