Updated Mar 06, 2021 | 18:34 IST
Old offers for the tweet suggest that it was put for sale in December, but the listing gained more attention after Dorsey’s tweet on March 5.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey puts up first tweet ‘just setting up my twttr’ for sale
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first Twitter post – “just setting up my twttr” -- is up for sale at an online tweets marketplace. The Twitter boss has listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on the website where tweets are sold as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The post, sent from Jack Dorsey’s account in March of 2006, received offers on March 6 that went as high as $88,888.88 within minutes of the Twitter co-founder tweeting a link to the listing on 'Valuables by Cent' - a tweets marketplace.