Twitter replaces homepage chicken brand with a ‘doge’, sends Dogecoin value hovering

Elon Musk is again to his antics on Twitter. In what appears to be a particularly late April Idiot’s Day gag, the billionaire has introduced one more new replace to Twitter by altering its iconic “blue chicken” on the homepage, into the “doge” meme of the favored cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Twitter’s brand has now formally turned ‘doge-y’.

Customers who opened the micro-blogging web site on Monday can have seen the Shiba Inu brand they have been greeted with, and as weird as this sounds, Twitter has certainly modified its brand. The Twitter CEO confirmed the replace by posting a previous dialog with one other consumer – whereby the consumer had requested Musk to purchase Twitter and alter the emblem to a doge. Musk, at the moment, had responded with “Haha that may sickkk,” and now, he posted the identical dialog and responded with “as promised.”

As promised pic.twitter.com/Jc1TnAqxAV

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023

The long-lasting “blue chicken” brand has, for a very long time, served as the house button on the internet model of Twitter. In typical Musk style, the billionaire posted a meme on the platform noting the change (and is but to elucidate the rationale for it).

pic.twitter.com/wmN5WxUhfQ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023

The notorious doge picture of a Shiba Inu is the well-established brand of the Dogecoin blockchain and cryptocurrency, which was created as a joke in 2013. Musk is understood to be an enormous fan of the “Doge meme,” having promoted it each on Twitter and through his look final yr internet hosting “Saturday Night time Dwell.” Final month, Musk even posted {a photograph} of the Dogecoin brand, posing because the CEO, on his account with the caption, “The brand new CEO of Twitter is wonderful.”

In fact, this growth has proved to be useful for Dogecoin, whose value rose by greater than 20% after Twitter used its mascot as its brand. At present, the value of the meme coin has elevated as much as $0.096 – which is its highest value in additional than a month – however removed from the height it reached in Could 2021.

Apparently, this comes proper  on the heels of Musk petitioning a court docket within the US to dismiss a lawsuit filed towards him, looking for a complete of $258 billion in damages, over an alleged pyramid scheme. The lawsuit alleges that Musk promoted Dogecoin to revenue from its buying and selling – he “used his pedestal because the world’s richest man to function and manipulate the Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme for revenue, publicity, and amusement.” Musk isn’t doing a lot to make his case although, it appears.

The lawsuit was filed within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York, and Musk’s authorized workforce lately filed a movement to have the lawsuit dismissed. They referred to as the allegations a “fanciful work of fiction” over Musk’s “innocuous and infrequently foolish tweets” about Dogecoin.