Breaking information: A 51-year-old man has made a joke that reeks of the identical sophistication a 13-year-old boy would possibly deliver to Reddit.
After Twitter’s botched try and 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 concept of a belated April Fools’ joke, or it might imply one thing greater than that. The worth of the pointless, meme-driven cryptocurrency Dogecoin goes up, although it’s nonetheless far decrease than its peak worth in Could 2021.
Musk is presently dealing with a $258 million racketeering lawsuit, which alleges that he ran a pyramid scheme to advertise Dogecoin. Friday night, Musk’s legal professionals wrote in a submitting with Manhattan’s federal court docket that his tweets had been jokes. In fact, this isn’t the primary time Musk’s legal professionals 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 influence the costs of cryptocurrencies, he’s not doing an excellent job. However maybe a fast pump-and-dump scheme might web him more cash than promoting Twitter Blue subscriptions.