Breaking information: a 51-year-old man has made a joke that reeks of the identical sophistication a 13-year-old boy would possibly convey to Reddit.
After Twitter’s botched try to take away legacy blue checkmarks from verified accounts that don’t pay for Twitter Blue, it appears the platform has set its sights on extra juvenile coding endeavors.
Sure, Twitter’s homepage icon actually is the doge meme proper now.
This would possibly simply be Musk’s thought of a belated April Fools joke, or it may imply one thing greater than that. The worth of the pointless, meme-driven cryptocurrency Dogecoin goes up, although its nonetheless far decrease than its peak worth in Might 2021.
Musk is presently going through a $258 million racketeering lawsuit, which alleges that he ran a pyramid scheme to advertise Dogecoin. Friday night, Musk’s attorneys wrote in a submitting with Manhattan’s federal court docket that his tweets had been jokes. After all, this isn’t the primary time Musk’s attorneys have needed to defend his tweets earlier than the court docket.
If Musk is attempting to show that his (not even humorous) memes don’t impression the costs of cryptocurrencies, he’s not doing an incredible job. However maybe a fast pump-and-dump scheme may web him more cash than promoting Twitter Blue subscriptions.