Some Twitter users noted that the platform had swapped its iconic blue bird logo for the “Doge,” an internet meme about a Shiba Inu puppy that is also the logo of a cryptocurrency.
The even bizarre change comes three days after the head of the social network, Elon Musk, asked a US federal court to dismiss a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit filed against him by Dogecoin investors. , the cryptocurrency that takes its name from the meme.
Elon Musk referred to the change on Monday afternoon by tweeting “as promised”, along with the image of a conversation from a year ago in which another user suggested to the billionaire “just buy Twitter” and “change the logo from the bird to a doge”.
Last week, Musk’s lawyers called the lawsuit, which accuses him of participating in a pyramid scheme to artificially prop up memecoin, a “fanciful work of fiction.”
“There is nothing illegal about tweeting words of support or funny images about a legitimate cryptocurrency that continues to have a market capitalization of nearly $10 billion,” they added.
Unsurprisingly, its price spiked after Musk’s presentation last Friday, and spiked further in the minutes after Twitter’s logo change on Monday, according to CoinDesk.
It should be remembered that Dogecoin was created at the end of 2013 by a couple of software engineers, as a joke. The name is a nod to the “doge” meme that became popular a decade ago; the Shiba Inu dog breed imitates that meme.
This curious change occurs one day after Elon Musk decided to remove the blue verified account mark from the main Twitter profile of The New York Times.
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Twitter removes the check mark from the main account of The New York Times