Which company did Elon Musk buy in 2022 and later rename X?

Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and later renamed it X.

Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022, after months of negotiations and legal disputes over the proposed purchase. Twitter was a social-networking service founded in 2006 and became widely known for short public posts, originally called tweets.

In July 2023, the company began rebranding the service as X. The change included replacing Twitter’s familiar bird logo and changing the language used for posts. The corporate entity and the consumer service have undergone additional structural changes, making the acquisition a notable example of a major technology brand being replaced rather than merely redesigned.

Snapchat, Tumblr, and Reddit are separate social-media companies. None was acquired by Musk in the transaction that produced the X rebrand.