April 2023: Twitter Logo Gets a Doge Look. For a little while, Musk swapped out the Twitter logo for the Doge meme, which sent Dogecoin’s price up noticeably. Reports said it jumped from $0.076 to $0.101 in just two hours. The “DogeFather” Nickname Sticks: Musk has kept calling himself the “DogeFather.”

Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk fondly recalled his infamous decision to briefly swap the Twitter logo for the Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) meme, a move that triggered a significant surge in the meme coin’s value.

The negative impact of the billionaire’s absence and foray into politics is even clearer at his space startup than it is at Tesla.

X owner Elon Musk confirmed that the social media platform will soon launch the beta version of a payments feature.

Kekius Maximus is a mashup of Pepe the Frog, a long-running internet meme, and Maximus, the Roman general from the film Gladiator. The persona blends satire and internet culture in a way that has become typical of Musk’s posts on X.

Elon Musk has for years said that X (formerly Twitter) will become a payments app—and confirmed Sunday that the service would launch in soon.

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During Tesla’s April earnings call he said that he would “significantly” reduce his time running President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.