Dogecoin Surges 35% after Elon Musk Finally Closes Twitter Acquisition Deal

Dogecoin has been trading up 35% since Monday following the news about Elon Musk has completed the deal to acquire Twitter’s social media giant. Doge soared its price 10% up after the Tesla chief executive changed his Twitter bio to read “Chief of Twit” on Wednesday.

According to the CNBC report, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now in charge of the social media and online news platform Twitter in a $44 billion deal. 

After a month of long battle between Musk and Twitter over the sale, Musk closed the deal on Friday. 

Musk also decided to lay off the major executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. Based on the announcement, Twitter’s CEO Parag Agarwal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal have left the company’s headquarters in San Francisco. CNBC reporter David Faber shared a tweet that the executives “will not be returning.”

Musk expressed his excitement about closing Twitter’s deal on Thursday – he disclosed the reason for acquiring the social networking platform in a tweet: “Did it [bought Twitter] to try to help humanity, whom I love. And I do so with humility, recognizing that failure in pursuing this goal, despite our best efforts, is a very real possibility.”

Faber expects more changes are likely within Twitter as he believes that Musk will lay off some of the company’s employees, as that number could be up to “three-quarters of the staff.”

In terms of crypto, Dogecoin has been in a steady decline for several months, trading low on the market. But that changed on Monday this week when the value of the meme coin suddenly turned up, recovering 25% on the week and surging 16% on Wednesday.  The price of doge has risen by 35% since the beginning of this week. At the time of writing, the price is down by 2.64% and now trading at $0.0745, according to CoinMarketCap.

Source: TradingView

Doge’s surge is far from a normal revival – it is linked to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, as the deadline for his purchase of the company approaches on Friday.

Musk has been the most visible and vocal supporter of the meme cryptocurrency, often influencing its price with his tweets and even endorsed it as a payment option on his Tesla merchandise store.

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