Twitter changed its traditional blue bird logo Monday morning to mimic the logo of a popular cryptocurrency – an image of a dog that featured in viral memes.
The microblogging platform’s homepage and loading screen was replaced with the shiba inu image associated with the Dogecoin memecoin cryptocurrency.
The logo change has caused the dogecoin (DOGE), which is the eighth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization to surge by 30 per cent.
Twitter’s original blue bird logo is called “Larry T Bird,” and it was inspired by NBA legend and Hall-of-Famer Larry Bird.
There was no formal announcement of the logo change, and people suspected Elon Musk was behind it due to his fondness for the famous Shiba Inu meme.
Musk joked about the logo change by sharing a meme that has more than 586, 000 likes and 71,000 retweets.
Then, in another tweet, he shared a screenshot of an old conversation with a user who asked him to “buy Twitter and change the bird logo to a doge”. He said in the tweet it’s done “as promised”.
It is, however, uncertain how long the Doge logo will last as the change has been met with mixed reactions and has become a topic of conversation on the platform.
The logo change also comes at a time when blue checkmark verifications may disappear for Twitter users who do not pay a fee.