Breaking Information: A 51-year-old has made a joke that smacks of the identical sophistication a 13-year-old boy may carry to Reddit.
After Twitter’s botched try and take away legacy blue checkmarks from verified accounts that do not pay for Twitter Blue, it appears the platform has set its sights on extra juvenile coding efforts.
Sure, the Twitter homepage icon is de facto the identical doge proper now.
It may simply be Musk’s concept of a belated April Idiot’s joke, or it may imply one thing greater than that. The worth of the ineffective, meme-driven cryptocurrency Dogecoin is rising, though it’s nonetheless properly beneath its Could 2021 all-time excessive.
Musk is at the moment going through a $258 million racketeering lawsuit, which alleges he ran a pyramid scheme to advertise Dogecoin. On Friday evening, Musk’s attorneys wrote in a Manhattan federal courtroom submitting that his tweets had been jokes. After all, this is not the primary time Musk’s legal professionals have needed to defend his tweets in courtroom.
If Musk is making an attempt to show that his (not even humorous) memes do not impression cryptocurrency costs, he isn’t doing an ideal job. However possibly a fast pump-and-dump program may make him extra money than promoting Twitter Blue subscriptions.