Twitter users were stunned on Monday when the logo of the obscure cryptocurrency Dogecoin appeared at the top of the site.
The classic Twitter bird logo, usually seen at the top of the site’s desktop, has been replaced with an image of a Shiba Inu dog, the logo of Dogecoin’s “meme” cryptocurrency.
Users have speculated that this is the latest in a series of bizarre decisions by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last year for $44 billion, more than double its current value.
The price of Dogecoin jumped 30 percent after the logo appeared, though Twitter didn’t immediately confirm if it was just a joke or a planned integration.
Dogecoin tweeted: “Very currency, wow, a lot of coins, how much money, so many cryptocurrencies.”
Musk also posted a meme citing the change.
The Twitter press service was reached out for comment and responded with a poop emoji, another initiative by Mr Musk.
It comes at a particularly turbulent time for Twitter, led by Musk, who unchecked “verified” from his account on Sunday. The newspaper “New York Times commissioned by one of his admirers.
Musk threatened to remove verified checkboxes, which were used by Twitter’s previous owners to identify businesses, celebrities and public figures whose identities were verified by the platform, from companies refusing to pay $1,000 a month and from individuals refusing to pay $8 a month.
But despite an earlier threat to deactivate “old” users by April 1st, that date has passed and no progress has been made.
In a now-deleted tweet on Sunday, Musk said companies would have “a few weeks of peace” despite the threat.
Mr. Musk has already started selling “verified” ticks to users who pay $8 a month for his Twitter Blue subscription.
On Sunday, a Twitter follower urged Blue Mask to “remove the outdated verified check” from such accounts. The newspaper “New York Timeswhich clarified that it “does not intend to pay a monthly tick status fee for our institutional Twitter accounts.”
Mr. Musk replied: “Okay, let’s shoot then.”
The newspaper account now appears without the gold verification badge that is used to represent “the official organization on Twitter”.
Mr. Musk questioned the platform’s previous policy of using celebrity identity checkboxes and combating misinformation as a “bull lord and peasant system” ahead of the $1,000-per-month “gold” tier launch for organizations.
Source: I News
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