Hmm ... Except the twin paradox has nothing to do with the Doppler effect. It has to do with the time dilation. The latter is the same regardless of direction of the motion. It depends only on the relative speed between two frames of reference.
It reminded me of a puzzle with two racing bugs. One goes up and down a wall with constant speed. Another goes up, to the same height, with the half speed and then down with the double speed. Who wins?
The first bug wins. It is back to the starting point by the time the other one just gets to the top.
A car goes 15 mph for 1 mile. How fast must it go in the same 1 mile back to average 30 mph for the entire round trip?
*According to a story, Albert Einstein got this puzzle in a letter from a friend and enjoyed the trick.
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