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Twitter’s traditional bird icon was removed and replaced with an image of a Shiba Inu, an apparent nod to Dogecoin, the joke cryptocurrency over which CEO Elon Musk is being sued.
Musk addressed the change Monday afternoon, Tweet“As promised” above an image of a year-old conversation in which another user suggested Musk “just buy Twitter” and “change the bird logo to a dog.”
According to Reuters, the Doge logo appeared on the site two days after Musk asked a judge to dismiss a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support Dogecoin.
Lawyers for Musk and Tesla called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors over Musk’s “harmless and often idiotic tweets” a “fanciful work of fiction.”
It was unclear whether the logo change was permanent or not. Musk is known for using Twitter to troll both his fans and critics.
The price of Dogecoin, which is typically volatile, has risen more than 20% in the past 24 hours to about 9 cents. It was trading at less than 8 cents on Monday morning.
Dogecoin was created as a joke by a pair of software engineers on December 6, 2013. The name is a nod to the “Doge” meme that became popular a decade ago. Its Shiba Inu mascot mimics that meme: a dog surrounded by a bunch of Comic Sans text in broken English.
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