(Reuters) – “just setting up my twttr” – the first tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website to tweet if not -fungible tokens (NFTs) for sale. ).
The message, which was sent from Dorsey’s account in March 2006, received offers on Friday that tweeted within minutes of the Twitter co-founder linking to the presentation on ‘Valuables by Cent’ – a tweets market – to Increased to $ 88,888.88.
Old offers for the tweet indicate that it was offered for sale in December, but the offer received more attention after Dorsey’s tweet on Friday.
NFTs are digital files that serve as digital signatures to confirm who owns photos, videos, and other online media.
Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is one of the best-known tweets ever on the platform and could entice bidders to pay a heavy price for the digital memorabilia. The highest bid for the tweet was $ 0125 GMT on Saturday at $ 100,000.
Valuables, launched three months ago, compares buying tweets to buying a signature baseball card. “There is only one unique signed version of the tweet, and if the creator agrees to sell, you can own it forever.”
A buyer of a tweet receives a signature of digital certificate, signed with cryptography, which includes metadata of the original tweet, according to the website of the valuable. The tweet will still be available on the Twitter website.
Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Edited by Simon Cameron-Moore