DID ELON ACTUALLY REPLACE THE OLD TWITTER BIRD ICON WITH A DOG ICON? IS IT PERMANENT?
Twitter users woke up to absolute chaos on the platform today. The platform is filled with memes and laughs. But why? Here is why.
Elon Musk who is now the CEO of Twitter has been making many changes to the app recently. Today users saw him doing something hilarious, the Twitter logo – the bird is replaced by a dog.
The blue bird is now replaced with a famous meme dog Kabosu, the Shiba Inu. The Twitter app doesn’t look like it got the changes yet, but the Twitter web when opened shows a doge icon, and after opening the corner icon is also a doge.
This change had netizens rolling on the floor laughing, while some others are trying to figure out what Musk’s intentions might be. Some speculations are that it might be an April fool prank.
Musk announced the logo change by dropping a funny meme, the meme shows the new icon (doge) in a driving seat with a police officer standing in front. The police officer has a document in his hand with the pic of the old icon (the bird) and the doge says “That’s an old photo”.
Users made multiple comments on the post, some users gave Musk suggestions for making a logo, and some others cracked jokes about the decision.
A user wrote “But now how would you explain “Twitter” with a doge icon pic? Barker? With Woofs instead of tweets lmao”. Another user expressed their sadness saying “I hope it’s a temporary one, so Twitter doesn’t turn from tweeting to Barking”.
The announcement post by Musk is followed by another tweet which is also a photo, more like a screenshot. Elon added a screenshot of his conversation over tweets with a user – chairman.
The conversation in the picture goes –
Elon Musk – Is a new platform needed?
Chairman – just buy Twitter
Chairman – and change the dog logo to a doge
Elon Musk – Haha that would sickkk
Musk posted this and added the caption “As promised”.
Musk has gone into many controversies in the past few months; recently has gone into a case where he is facing a lawsuit of $258 in which he is accused of promoting Dogecoin (cryptocurrency) by operating a pyramid investment scheme.
Now after this stunt pulled up by Musk, the price of cryptocurrency Dogecoin has gone up by 10%.