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CNN
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Twitter’s traditional Twitter Bird icon has been ditched and replaced with an image of a SHAIBA INU, an apparent nod to Dogecoin, the coo cryptocurrency settled by CEO Elon Musk.
Musk announced the change Monday afternoon, Tweet“As promised” over an image of a year-old conversation where another user suggested that musk “just buy twitter” and “change the bird logo to a dogo.”
The DOGE logo appeared on the site two days after Musk requested a ruling to dismiss a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support DegOCOIN, According to Reuters.
Lawyers for Musk and Tesla called the lawsuit by Dogecoin investors a “fanciful work of fiction” over Musk’s dining room. ”
It’s unclear if the logo change is permanent. Musk has been known to use Twitter to troll his fans and his critics.
The price of DegOCOIN, which is usually volatile, is more than 20% in the last 24 hours, to about 9 cents. It was trading below 8 cents Monday morning.
Dogecoin was created on December 6, 2013, by a pair of software engineers – as a joke. The name is a nod to the “doge” meme that became popular a decade ago. The SHABA INU Mascot Mimicks Meme: A dog surrounded by a bunch of comics sans text in broken English.