NEW YORK – Dogecoin rose as much as 30 per cent after Twitter users noticed their home buttons had changed into the dog meme after which the cryptocurrency was named.

Some Twitter users began to notice that the home button in the top left corner of their Web browsers – usually the company’s solid blue bird logo – had been replaced with a cartoon of the shiba inu that is the face of the Doge meme, at around 1.45pm New York time on Monday.

Dogecoin rose to as high as 10.2 US cents from around 7.7 US cents after the change. Doge also began to trend on Twitter.

The shift comes days after Twitter began making changes to its verification system.

Some accounts with so-called legacy verification, like The New York Times, saw their check marks removed. Others have kept their checks with a note that they were either Twitter Blue subscribers or legacy verified accounts.  

Twitter did not respond to a question about the home button change.

At 3.44pm in New York, Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a photo of an earlier exchange in which a Twitter user had urged him to change the bird logo to a doge.

Mr Musk tweeted: “As promised.” BLOOMBERG