Twitter founder puts his first tweet up for sale

LTwitter boss Jack Dorsey put his very first tweet on sale on Friday and the highest bid was $ 2 million on Saturday, a sign of appetite for these new collectibles, virtual items authenticated on the blockchain.

“I’m creating my Twttr account,” the platform founder tweeted on March 21, 2006. On Friday, he tweeted a link to the “Valuables” site, where amateurs can make an offer.

The highest bid on Saturday – $ 2 million – came from Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, a blockchain platform, the core cryptocurrency technology, and owner of the BitTorrent streaming platform.

“The creator of a tweet decides if he would like to send it on the blockchain to create a unique authenticated version,” explains the tweet auction site.

Buying a tweet means acquiring “a digital certificate of the tweet, unique because it was signed and verified by the creator,” the company says on its question-and-answer page – like an autograph.

The tweet itself remains visible to everyone, as long as Jack Dorsey or Twitter leaves it online.