Twitter Home Button Changes from the Blue Bird to Doge Meme as Dogecoin Price Shoots Up by 30%

Elon Musk keeps the request from an anonymous account and replaces the home button with a dog meme inspired by the cryptocurrency Dogecoin spike by 30%.

Written by: Arjita Gupta

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: April 04, 2023

Twitter users discovered that their home buttons had changed to the dog meme after which the name of the cryptocurrency belongs. Dogecoin saw a 30% increase to $0.09 on Tuesday. Some Twitter users have noticed that the Shiba Inu cartoon that serves as the face of the Doge meme has replaced the home button which is otherwise Twitter's solid blue bird logo in the upper left corner of their web browsers.

The adjustment was made a few days after Twitter started making modifications to its authentication process. The check marks on some accounts like the New York Times were taken off. The check marks otherwise indicate the legacy of a Twitter account. Several accounts have retained the checks and said that they were either legacy verified accounts or Blue subscribers.

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, shared a picture of a previous conversation in which a user requested that he switch the bird emblem to a doge. The snapshot of the conversation dated 26 March 2022 that took place between Elon and the anonymous account, was shared by Twitter’s CEO in a post carrying the link, with “As promised” written in words.

The snapshot of the interaction proved that the anonymous account had requested to change the bird logo, which is the official logo, to that of ‘doge’. Musk has been in charge of driving up doge prices on a number of times by posting references to and memes about the cryptocurrency with a dog theme on his social media page. Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, two software engineers, developed Dogecoin, a mock cryptocurrency, in 2013.

The 51-year-old Elon Musk serves as the CEO of Tesla, a company that offers solar batteries for homes. It also sells electric vehicles. In addition, Musk is the CEO of the rocket manufacturer - SpaceX, which is taken up by NASA to restock the space station, and he owns a stake in Twitter, a major social networking company.