Someone who wandered onto social media on Monday night experienced something strange. Abracadabra: Twitter’s famous blue bird turned into a dog.
We don’t know why the action took place two days after April Fools’ Day. However, it is certain that the price of dogecoin increased by 40% immediately after the logo change, and after 10 pm it seemed to consolidate above 9 dollar cents. Its current exchange rate is around 9.4 US cents.
Musk couldn’t resist tweeting about the topic, posting the following post:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
He also tweeted the original version of this meme roughly 17 hours before the logo change, possibly signaling the mischief he was up to.
All indications are that the logo change came from the mind of the admin of the popular r/WallStreetBets subreddit. In a Twitter conversation with Musk, he wrote to the CEO, “Just buy Twitter. And replace the bird logo with a Doge.” Musk replied: “Haha, that would be sick”. Elon posted the conversation himself, writing only, “As promised.”
As promised pic.twitter.com/Jc1TnAqxAV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
It is not known whether the change was only temporary, or whether the blue bird flew away for good. The latter possibility would not be surprising either, although the original logo is still preserved in most places, such as in the embeddings above, as well as in the favicon of the website.
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It may also be related to the case that Twitter’s new CEO and his legal team on March 31 asked the court to dismiss it the lawsuit filed against him precisely because of his support for Dogecoin.
In this, a total of 258 billion dollars are demanded from him by those investors who allegedly lost their crypto investment because of Musk’s Dogecoin-supporting tweets. The Tesla chief’s lawyers argue that tweeting funny pictures and words of support does not constitute fraud.
The court will definitely have a hard time looking for precedents. Just as perhaps they cannot find an example from the past of someone replacing the symbol of their website with more than 360 million monthly active users as support. Or is it? Seriously, are there any Europeans out there who are surprised by the symbol swaps?