Dogecoin: Why Elon Musk changed Twitter's logo to an image of 'the people's crypto'

What began as a parody of popular cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin has become a hot topic for Twitter CEO, Elon Musk

Back in 2013, as leading cryptos including Bitcoin and Ethereum moved further into the mainstream, Dogecoin was created by software engineers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer to poke fun at crypto and the wild speculation in cryptocurrencies at the time.

On Monday, Twitter's traditional blue bird logo was replaced by an image of a shiba inu dog, an image well known across online crypto spaces.

The new Twitter icon is not just any shiba inu, with the photo portraying the logo of cryptocurrency, Dogecoin, an asset which Twitter owner, Elon Musk has a long, complex relationship with.