Elon Musk Sends Dogecoin Fans Into Further Frenzy With Recent Tweet: Here's How

Musk can easily influence the integration of DOGE payments for Twitter products.

Written by Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee, Edited by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 2 November 2022 14:12 IST

Elon Musk Sends Dogecoin Fans Into Further Frenzy With Recent Tweet: Here's How

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Elon Musk has always influenced DOGE’s price with his tweets

Highlights

The Musk effect on DOGE price isn’t new
Antecedents suggest a DOGE integration to Twitter is inevitable
Musk tweeted an image of a Shiba Inu on Monday morning

Elon Musk, the Tesla billionaire who last week took Twitter private, has helped the price of the meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin more than double over the last week as people speculate about his plans for the social network platform. After Musk recently posted a picture of a dog wearing a Twitter t-shirt, Dogecoin has rocketed above Ethereum rivals Solana and Cardano, according to CoinMarketCap's price ranking. As a result, Dogecoin backers think that the world's most popular meme coin is finally going to the moon.

As things stand, over the last 24 hours, the price of Dogecoin has traded close to 15 percent higher as the meme cryptocurrency continued its massive rally this week. Over the past seven days, the price of Dogecoin is up more than 131 percent.

The key factor behind the bull run is that investors seem to believe that Musk may incorporate some kind of crypto component into Twitter that might include the use of Dogecoin, which might spread the cryptocurrency's exposure and use. There are reports that Twitter is working on a digital wallet prototype that would support crypto deposits and withdrawals.

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😉 pic.twitter.com/eaIYaDRBnu
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 1, 2022

Musk's latest tweet also suggests that if Twitter starts monetising creators' content, the meme-themed coin might be among the payment options for creators. Adding Dogecoin as a payment will further cause its price to spike significantly. That said, a DOGE integration won't be the first on the Twitter platform. Twitter had previously integrated a Bitcoin and an Ethereum tipping feature in September 2021 and February 2022, respectively.

Based on antecedents, a DOGE payment option on Twitter is almost inevitable. Musk's other companies, such as SpaceX, Boring Company, Tesla, and the recently launched Burnt Perfume, accept DOGE payments for their products and services.

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Furthermore, other news reports suggest that Dogecoin is currently experiencing a short squeeze. The reports say that crypto exchanges have experienced tens of millions in liquidations on Dogecoin specifically, as traders who were shorting the token had to cover their positions.

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