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Dogecoin and Elon Musk: the tweet timeline

A dated timeline of Elon Musk's best known Dogecoin moments, from his April 2019 'fav crypto' post to the 2024 DOGE department, with sourced prices.

Why a timeline

Musk is the person most often linked to Dogecoin's price. Below are his best known moments, each tied to our event pages, with the daily close from a named exchange where our price data covers the date. Posts can line up with moves without being their only cause.

Dogecoin price, USD
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Source: Binance DOGE/USDT daily closes 2019-07-05 to 2021-06-02; Coinbase Exchange DOGE/USD daily closes 2021-06-03 to 2026-10-14. Fetched Oct 14, 2026 from free public APIs. Click a dot for the event and its price on that day.

The timeline

  1. Apr 2, 2019milestone
    Musk: Dogecoin might be my fav
    Elon Musk's first well known Dogecoin post.
  2. Jan 28, 2021rally
    Reddit and the January 2021 spike $0.0365 (Binance DOGE/USDT daily close, 2021-01-28)
    Riding the GameStop frenzy, DOGE jumps several times in a day.
  3. Feb 4, 2021rally
    Dogecoin is the people's crypto $0.05291 (Binance DOGE/USDT daily close, 2021-02-04)
    Musk posts that Dogecoin is the people's crypto.
  4. May 7, 2021rally
    2021 peak $0.6898 (Binance DOGE/USDT daily close, 2021-05-07)
    Dogecoin reaches its highest close ever in our series.
  5. May 8, 2021crash
    Musk on SNL $0.6371 (Binance DOGE/USDT daily close, 2021-05-08)
    DOGE falls as Musk calls it "a hustle" on Saturday Night Live.
  6. Oct 28, 2022rally
    Musk buys Twitter $0.08387 (Coinbase Exchange DOGE/USD daily close, 2022-10-28)
    DOGE jumps after Musk completes his Twitter purchase.
  7. Apr 3, 2023rally
    Twitter logo becomes Doge $0.09608 (Coinbase Exchange DOGE/USD daily close, 2023-04-03)
    Twitter briefly swaps its bird logo for the Doge dog.
  8. Nov 12, 2024rally
    Department of Government Efficiency $0.3803 (Coinbase Exchange DOGE/USD daily close, 2024-11-12)
    A government advisory body named DOGE is announced.

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Sources

Facts written in our own words. Last checked Oct 14, 2026.