I think this is not an attempt "to influence the crypto market", but some tricky person just created this token to sell it during hype. Elon Musk zero relationship to this Floki token.
This is a great example of how greedy people can be and how easily they can be tricked and controlled. This is so simple. Take what ever Elon says, create a token with same name and voila, you are locked and loaded for scam sale.
+1. Thats what we see right now. If it was Elon job he would create this token while ago and create some price action around it before tweet.
But its not that easy - create token, put it on uniswap and become milionere. You also need to have few MM$ in ETH to be able to create liquidity on uniswap big enought to not arouse suspicion. So its rich guys game.
I wonder if Elon will end like McAfee one day...