New York
CNN
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Twitter’s conventional hen icon was booted and changed with a picture of a Shiba Inu, an obvious nod to dogecoin, the joke cryptocurrency that CEO Elon Musk is being sued over.
Musk addressed the change Monday afternoon, tweeting, “as promised” above a picture of a year-old dialog by which one other person prompt that Musk “simply purchase Twitter” and “change the hen brand to a doge.”
The doge brand appeared on the positioning two days after Musk requested a choose to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of operating a pyramid scheme to help the dogecoin, in keeping with Reuters.
Legal professionals for Musk and Tesla referred to as the lawsuit by dogecoin traders a “fanciful work of fiction” over Musk’s “innocuous and infrequently foolish tweets.”
It wasn’t clear whether or not the brand change was everlasting. Musk has been recognized to make use of Twitter to troll each his followers and his critics.
The worth of dogecoin, which is often risky, was up greater than 20% over the previous 24 hours, to about 9 cents. It was buying and selling slightly below 8 cents Monday morning.
Dogecoin was created December 6, 2013, by a pair of software program engineers — as a joke. The identify is a nod to the “doge” meme that grew to become standard a decade in the past. Its Shiba Inu mascot mimicks that meme: a canine surrounded by a bunch of Comedian Sans textual content in damaged English.