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Ask HN: Why is the Twitter logo a Shiba Inu?
I noticed my Twitter bird icon has replaced by a Shiba Inu. Clearly I'm not the only one, e.g.: https://twitter.com/search?q=shiba%20logo&src=typed_query
Here's an example of someone else commenting on it: https://twitter.com/HallowWolf2/status/1642943643479687182
Any idea what's going on here?
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- kristianp 4y agoEvery now and then Musk decides to shill for dogecoin. Nobody is sure if it's a joke or not.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoI'm pretty sure it's not. He can find proxies to invest in it, and under the guise of joking and memeing around, rake in easy profit. And if we keep letting him do it, it's no surprise he keeps doing it.
- kristianp 4y agoDo you have any support for that theory? Any investment in Doge would be tiny compared to the size of Musks other financial interests.
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoYou're assuming the guy who burned 2.5 billion in advertisement revenue in order to get about 30 million of subscriber revenue is rational. And that's a bad assumption. Plus what does it cost him to put a doge on Twitter? Nothing.
- teetertater 4y agoCould be related to this lawsuit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406939 I see it in the browser but not the app
- BulgarianIdiot 4y agoArticle says "seeks to end lawsuit" but seems like he seeks to start another one.
- Centigonal 4y agoThe Dogecoin price graph is spiking: https://www.coindesk.com/price/dogecoin/ https://www.coindesk.com/price/dogecoin/
- lom 4y agoIsn’t market manipulation like that illegal?
- qgin 4y agoCrypto isn't legally considered a security.
- eftychis 4y agoEven if say a particular cryptocurrency is not a security, it is definitely a commodity and market manipulation of a commodity is still a thing and a crime. Ask CFTC.
- mjwhansen 4y agoThe SEC disagrees. https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-actions https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...
- drstewart 4y agoWhat's the market manipulation?
- runarberg 4y agoIf you own a large advertising platform, and you have a stake in another company, are you than allowed to place an ad at a favorable place on that platform, a place so favorable it trumps any other content and even user’s ad-blockers? I’m not a lawyer, but there is something here that doesn’t smell right.
- smhg 4y agoThat graph does not have 0 as the starting point, which makes the so called spike look more dramatic. Try to enlarge the view by selecting a much longer period of time.
- can16358p 4y agoSomeone is making a good money off it. We all know who.
- cbeach 4y agoIt was a joke suggested by @WSBChairman, which Elon followed through on: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1642976364080041984?s=46&t=V_LFasefQl-Q0BteAGBqDg https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1642976364080041984?s=46... The whole point of Doge is that it’s daft and pokes fun at how seriously people took crypto a few years ago. I think HN seems to be quick to assume malice here. Lighten up, folks!