Users of the desktop version of Twitter have been hallucinating since yesterday morning April 3. And it is that, although since the business magnate Elon Musk acquired the Blue Bird social network and began to test it, the trial and error experiments and the news in the stream have not ceased to repeat themselves , the latest change was so remarkable that it became, in just a few hours, the most commented thing of the moment.
Twitter, without giving an explanation, at least for the moment, has decided change your brand logo and replace it with a new symbol formed by the head of a dog of the shiba inu breed with which it has been identified for years in Dogecoin Cryptocurrencya value with which, according to El Mundo, Elon Musk has had a close relationship for years.
And, since there is no action without reaction, and despite the fact that the appearance of the Dogecoin logo on Twitter was taken by many users as a joke or an extravagance by Musk, the reality is that the cryptocurrency that the tycoon has lived with for several tussles over the past decade, it was revalued in the last hours experiencing a sharp rise in the stock market that reached up to 20%.
Elon Musk faces lawsuit for trying to inflate Dogecoin
Although some Twitter users have pointed out that everything could be the result of a hack on the social network, the fact that Elon Musk posted a meme referring to what happened suggests that it is a voluntary action on the part of the technicians of the social network. platform, which could have been invited by the tycoon to change the icon to sow more controversy around the lawsuit you are facing precisely for being accused of trying to inflate the price of Dogecoin.
Specifically, Musk and his attorneys last weekend called for the dismissal of a $258,000 million lawsuit for the case that was filed in June 2022 by Dogecoin investors, who claim thatTesla Owner Inflated Cryptocurrency Price by 36,000% in Just Two Years then “let it fall apart”.
“There’s nothing illegal about tweeting words of support or funny pictures about a legitimate cryptocurrency that still has a market capitalization of nearly $10 billion,” Musk’s lawyers said, pointing out that , according to them, the trial was nothing more than a “fanciful”. work of fiction” based on “innocent and often silly tweets” that Musk has posted in the past about Dogecoin.
And it is that over the past few years, Musk has repeatedly tweeted memes about this particular cryptocurrency which, like the tycoon’s messages, was born ironically and ended up becoming the subject of controversy and the center views of the international community. markets.