Dogecoin jumps after Elon Musk replaces Twitter bird with Shiba Inu

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Twitter’s traditional bird icon was booted and replaced with an image of a Shiba Inu

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an apparent nod to dogecoin, the joke cryptocurrency that CEO Elon Musk is being sued over.

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Musk “just buy Twitter” and “change the bird logo to a doge.”

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Lawyers for Musk and Tesla called the lawsuit by dogecoin investors a “fanciful work of fiction” over Musk’s “innocuous and often silly tweets.”

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Musk has been known to use Twitter to troll both his fans and his critics.

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The price of dogecoin, which is typically volatile, was up more than 20% over the past 24 hours, to about 9 cents

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Dogecoin was created December 6, 2013, by a pair of software engineers — as a joke. The name is a nod to the “doge” meme that became popular a decade ago

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