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‘Buy Doge’ Searches Skyrocket After Elon Musk Changes Twitter Logo
Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for Dogecoin have surged 1,992 percent worldwide over the last seven days…
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Crypto: Dogecoin falls after Twitter switches out Shiba Inu image to bird logo
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Twitter changed its logo to Doge. The internet reacted by laughing at (not with) Elon Musk.
Elon Musk bought Twitter for a preposterous $43 billion and things have gotten stranger every day since. Frankly, it’s all too much to summarize but it has been one weird, shortsighted decision after the next with Musk at the helm.
The latest oddity? Musk has swapped out the Twitter logo with Doge, the dog meme of which the billionaire is super fond. In the upper left corner of your browser, while on Twitter, it is now a shiba inu instead of a bird. Sure, why not? It’s not any less weird than, well, anything else Musk does. It’s lame, yes, but so is most of what he finds funny.
Musk first posted an old meme about the change.
He then followed that tweet up with a screenshot of an old exchange he had about the change. Basically, he long admitted this would be very funny to him, which is wildly cringey.
The internet wasn’t as pleased with stunt as Musk.
In short: Everyone was laughing at Musk not with him. It’s just such a strange, weird, unfunny thing to do. The man can flush $43 billion down the toilet as much as he wants, but this is such a lame way to do it. Musk is basically turning Twitter in jokes that weren’t really all that funny back when they were popular in like…2011. These are the kind of jokes people half-chuckled at back when everyone was unironically calling everything “epic.”
Musk is actually being sued by investors claiming he pumped up Dogecoin’s value — the crypto using the meme — at the expense of other investors. And yet, here we are, with Doge as Twitter’s logo two days after April Fools’ Day. Par for the course with Musk’s version of Twitter.
Twitter replaces logo with doge as Musk seeks Dogecoin lawsuit dismissal
On Monday, Twitter users logged into the platform and noticed something odd.
The blue bird logo that’s usually visible throughout Twitter has been replaced. Instead of the bird, users are shown doge, the Shiba Inu internet meme that the 51-year-old, father of nine Elon Musk is seemingly obsessed with.
Credit: Mashable screenshot
The doge icon can be seen replacing the Twitter bird, whose name is Larry, on the upper left-hand corner menu on the web. On mobile devices, it replaces the Twitter logo that once sat at the very top of the screen. Twitter is also displaying the doge meme on the loading page screen on the web.
It’s unclear exactly why Twitter did this, although it almost certainly was approved, if not initiated, by Musk himself. The timing is also weird. Today is April 3. April Fools’ Day was just a few days ago. This seems like something that should’ve rolled out then (if you absolutely had to.) Did Twitter attempt to roll this out in time for April 1, failed, and just decided to launch it when it was ready anyway?
Regardless of the reason, many Twitter users found it to be very lame.
One thing that is bizarre about the timing, though, is that it coincides with reports that Musk is trying to get a dogecoin-related lawsuit against him dismissed.
Dogecoin is the memecoin cryptocurrency that Elon Musk has heavily promoted over the years. The crypto token hit all-time highs in May 2021, on the day Musk hosted Saturday Night Live. The crypto pumped to $0.74 when Musk mentioned Dogecoin live on-air and quickly plummeted as investors began to sell-off their holdings, leaving many retail investors holding the bag. Dogecoin has hovered no higher than around $.06 and $.08 since the beginning of this year.
Last year, investors filed a lawsuit against Musk for $258 billion for his alleged role in a pyramid scheme to help prop up Dogecoin. On Friday, Musk’s lawyers requested that the lawsuit be dismissed, calling the allegations a “fanciful work of fiction.”
Not long after Twitter replaced its blue bird logo with doge today, Dogecoin prices spiked from $0.07 to $0.10.
Credit: Mashable screenshot / CoinMarketCap
Wikipedia says it has found the ‘sound of all human knowledge’ with new audio logo
We don’t always think about it, but sound can be as important to identifying a brand as any graphical logo. Netflix’s ‘ta-dum’ instantly brings the streaming service’s logo to mind. Apple’s startup chime feels like a warm greeting from your computer. Now, Wikipedia has an iconic audio mark of its own: a fluttering of book pages, keyboard clicks and synthesize tones it calls “The Sound of All Human Knowledge.”
In true Wikipedia fashion, the four second audio clip was sourced from the community. The Wikimedia Foundation hosted a contest to find an audio logo for “projects when visual logos are not an option.” Over 3,000 submissions later, they landed on a series of warm, happy notes preceded by book and keyboard noises, created by Thaddeus Osborne.
Osborne, a Nuclear Scientist by day, will be awarded $2,500 for creating the winning sound. Wikimedia will also be flying him to a professional recording studio to help produce a finalized version of the audio logo. The foundation says it hopes to have the final sound ready to use by June of this year.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/wikipedia-says-it-has-found-the-sound-of-all-human-knowledge-with-new-audio-logo-181059089.html?src=rss
This is Nokia’s new logo
For the first time in nearly 60 years, one-time smartphone giant Nokia is changing its iconic logo. On Sunday, before the official start of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, the company unveiled a new brand identity, and it’s a dramatic change. Gone is the iconic typeface and “Yale blue” that defined its previous logo. The company has instead adopted a look it claims is more modern and digital.
“We are updating our strategy, and, as a key enabler, we are also refreshing our brand to reflect who we are today: a business-to-business technology innovation leader pioneering the future where networks meet cloud,” Nokia said in a blog post attributed to CEO Pekka Lundmark. “In most people’s minds, we are still a successful mobile phone brand, but this is not what Nokia is about,” Lundmark told Bloomberg. “We want to launch a new brand that is focusing very much on the networks and industrial digitalization, which is a completely different thing from the legacy mobile phones.”
Is this the end of a logo so many people know and love? Not necessarily. You may recall, Nokia’s phone business hasn’t been a part of Nokia proper since Microsoft’s ultimately disastrous $7 billion acquisition of the company’s Devices and Services division in 2014. After the tech giant washed its hands clean of that deal in 2016, HMD Global, a company made up of former Nokia execs, acquired the rights to use the Nokia brand for smartphones and tablets, and has been doing its own thing ever since then. In fact, the company announced its latest device, the G22, just one day before today’s announcement, and as it so happens, that phone features the classic Nokia logo. Engadget has reached out to HMD Global to find out if the company plans to continue using that logo.