Twitter’s traditional bird icon was started as well as changed with an image of a Shiba Inu, an apparent nod to dogecoin, the joke cryptocurrency that chief executive officer Elon Musk is being taken legal action against over.
Musk resolved the adjustment Monday afternoon, tweeting, “as assured” over a picture of a year-old conversation in which another customer suggested that Musk “simply acquire Twitter” and also “transform the bird logo design to a doge.”
The doge logo design appeared on the website two days after Musk asked a judge to toss out a $258 billion racketeering suit implicating him of running a pyramid plan to support the dogecoin, according to Reuters.
Attorneys for Musk as well as Tesla called the legal action by dogecoin financiers a “whimsical work of fiction” over Musk’s “harmless and commonly silly tweets.”
It had not been clear whether the logo adjustment was permanent. Musk has been understood to use Twitter to troll both his followers as well as his movie critics.
The rate of dogecoin, which is commonly unpredictable, was up more than 20% over the past 1 day, to concerning 9 cents. It was trading simply under 8 cents Monday early morning.
Dogecoin was created December 6, 2013, by a set of software engineers– as a joke. The name is a nod to the “doge” meme that became prominent a years earlier. Its Shiba Inu mascot mimicks that meme: a pet dog bordered by a bunch of Comic Sans text in broken English.
Last Updated: 4 April 2023
