Do not adjust your screen. If you're a user of Twitter desktop, you may have noticed the top left corner of your feed has transformed into a tiny dog's head giving you a side eye. It's a Shiba Inu and it's also the symbol for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency. What is it doing on Twitter?
What are a lot of things doing on Twitter these days? What is Elon Musk, proud owner of the social media site since October of 2022, doing on and with Twitter? From confusion about blue checks, to ever-conflicting payment schemes, to the crypto dog (which indicates a personal vendetta), Musk is staging Twitter, a site with an estimated 450 million monthly users, as a revenge battleground.
