On Monday, Twitter users noticed that the traditional blue bird logo had been replaced by a cartoon drawing of Doge. Meanwhile, Dogecoin, the leading meme coin cryptocurrency, jumped 23% higher against the US dollar after the logo change.
Twitter’s Bird logo changed to Doge
Twitter updated its logo and replaced it with a picture of the famous Shiba Inu Doge; it is unclear how long the Doge logo will last, but it has been ahot topic {/19} on Twitter since people noticed the change.” Does anyone else see Doge as the Twitter logo?” onepersonargued that the judge should drop the $1 billion lawsuit, stressing that tweeting support for Dogecoin is not illegal.
The timing also revealed that for Twitter users who have not paid their fees, the blue check mark verification could disappear; Twitter’s original blue bird logo, called the “Larry T Bird,” was created by NBA legend and inspiredby Hall of Famer Larry Bird. No official announcement was made about the logo change, and it was suspected that Elon Musk was behind it, given his fondness for the famous Shiba Inu meme.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) on April 3, 2023
Meme CoinDogecoin (DOGE). DOGE, the eighth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, surged more than 23% on the news; DOGE hit a high of $0.1011 per unit on Monday, with $1.22 billion in global trading volume over 24 hours.
Cumulatively,DOGEis down 28%, but over the past two weeks, the meme coin is up 30%.” One Twitter usercommentedthat “I can now see the DOGE logo when I log into Twitter.” What is Elon Musk trying to tell us and how long will it stay there?” The person added.
Muskjokedabout the logo change, sharing a meme with more than 175,000 likes and 22,000 retweets. He also shared an image of Wall Street Vets (WSB) ChairmantellingMask last year to change the bird logo to Doge.” Haha that would be sick,” Mask replied at the time.
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