Elon Musk’s trolling reaches new heights.
Twitter users noticed Monday that the app’s iconic blue bird logo – which has historically appeared at the top of users’ menus as a home button – had been swapped out for an image of the well-known doge meme featuring the face of a shiba inu.
The image also appears as a buffering icon when users launch the app or open the site on the web.
The cheeky dog is, perhaps most well-known for serving as the face of Dogecoin, the meme coin that billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk famously endorsed and helped catapult into success in the spring of 2021 – that is, until its historic crash in late 2022, when the value of the currency tanked approximately 75%.
The change to Twitter’s logo comes just three days after Musk petitioned a US federal court to drop a $258bn racketeering lawsuit levied against him by Dogecoin investors. Plaintiffs allege that the controversial Twitter and Tesla exec was essentially operating a pyramid scheme in support of the cryptocurrency, which ultimately resulted in billions of dollars in losses.
Musks lawyers said in a filing made in Manhattan federal court: “There is nothing unlawful about tweeting words of support for, or funny pictures about, a legitimate cryptocurrency that continues to hold a market cap of nearly $10 billion. This court should put a stop to plaintiffs’ fantasy and dismiss the complaint.”
Following Twitter’s decision to update its logo Monday, Dogecoin’s price spiked more than 20% to about $0.092, per data from CoinGecko.
Whether the change is a long-term one remains to be seen.
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