By Steve Dinneen
Twitter’s logo mysteriously transformed from the familiar bird into the memetastic DogeCoin dog today, leaving users perplexed.
The logo in the top right corner of the Twitter browser window was replaced by a picture of a Shiba Inu, a breed of Japanese hunting dog. The dog also appears for a second when you first load Twitter from a web browser.
It’s not clear whether the dog is an in-joke by Twitter’s mercurial founder Elon Musk, an addition by a disgruntled employee or something entirely different.
The dog became a meme in the early 2010s, when users would overlay an interior monologue over an image of the dog, using phrases such as “so scare” and “much afraid”.
The dog was then used as the face of a meme crypto currency, DogeCoin, which became an unexpected success during the crypto market boom.
Meanwhile, the Blue Ticks of “legacy” verified Twitter users remained yesterday, despite Elon Musk saying they would all be removed by 1 April.
Blue Ticks have become a hot topic for Twitter users, with Musk, who bought the site for $43bn, removing the previous system, whereby Twitter internally verified users of note, notably celebrities and journalists.
The new system will force individuals and organisations to pay for their blue tick, with individual prices starting at £6.40 a month. The prices for an organisation in the UK will be €1,140 per month with a supplementary €60 per month per vertified employee or affiliate. It is not immediately clear why the UK prices are listed in euros.
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