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Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by leafstrat on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:19PM (#35461840)
It is not a logo of the "dogecoin doggy". It is doge, a very popular meme which Elon seems to enjoy.

I think the change occurred because of someone's request on his recent Twitter spaces discussion about the algorithm release. Near the end a participant asked about the "Fail Whale" being brought back because it had personality and she missed it. He said he would see about it. So perhaps he wanted to find out what the process would involve for modifying the site's logo.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgLdenVjxL

Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by sp332 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:39PM (#35462051)
Doge looks like this. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/581296-doge Dogecoin looks like this. https://dogecoin.com/ The twitter one is dogecoin.
Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by daydream on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:16PM (#35461822)
Paraphrasing Matt Levine… everything is securities fraud. So yes?
Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by smoldesu on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:13PM (#35461791)
I doubt it, but it's still shaping up to be an embarrassing self-troll. Maybe in a few days Elon will have a good alibi, or perhaps a Tesla-branded time machine headed back to an age when this would be novel or funny.
Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by dylanhassinger on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:47PM (#35462119)
of course
Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by r721 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:01PM (#35462244)
Reuters columnist wrote about it:

>Elon Musk’s Doge barks up SEC’s tree

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-doge-barks-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461807)

Re:Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an... by rvz on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:31PM (#35463397)
The Doge meme proceeded before Dogecoin.

If it was the 'Dogecoin logo', you would have a point. But it is an image of the doge meme.