Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey's First Ever Tweet Draws $2.5m Bid At Auction

Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey

Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Jack Dorsey, has auctioned his first ever 'tweet' on a website which sells tweets as non-fungible token. 

As of Monday, March 9, the CEO's first tweet had attracted a whooping bid of $2.5m. 

Dorsey had just tweeted "just setting up my twttr" at 12:50pm on March 21, 2006.

Dorsey had on Friday, March 5, tweeted a link to the listing on Valuables by Cent - a tweets marketplace. 

While old offers for the tweet suggest that it was put for sale in December, the listing gained more attention after Dorsey's tweet on Friday. 

According to Valuable's website, the highest bid for the tweet came from Bridge Oracle's CEO, Sina Estavi, as it topped TRON's founder, Justin Sun's $2m bid which was the highest as of Saturday. 

Valuables stated that owing any digital content can be a financial investment, create relationship between collector and creator, and hold sentimental value. 

“Like an autograph on a baseball card, the NFT itself is the creator’s autograph on the content, making it scarce, unique, and valuable," it said. 

It added that purchasing a tweet encompasses purchasing a digital certificate of the tweet signed using cryptography and which included metadata.