Jack Dorsey: Bids reach $2.5m for Twitter co-founder's first post

A tweet , granted it's the first ever tweet but nevertheless a tweet .... $2.5m for Ones and Zeros.

Within minutes of the tweet being posted, bids reached more than $88,000.

But they skyrocketed on Saturday, with a bid of $1.5m being usurped by a $2m offer at around 15:30 GMT.

According to Valuables by Cent's terms, 95% of a tweet's sale will go to the original creator with the remainder going to the website.
www.bbc.co.uk...

Kinda makes Tracey Emin's unmade bed look a bargain don't it.

Buying a tweet sounds just as worthless as buying a star. Ever hear those "Star Registry" ads on the radio? 2.5M for a certificate and Metadata? My goodness, I can't take the value of money seriously anymore.

originally posted by: bigsnowman
My goodness, I can't take the value of money seriously anymore.

Well I certainly can, but that’s just because I don’t have much of it.

But I get your point.. theirs a lot of people out there who clearly have more money than sense.

there are better ways to blow 2.5 million.

I don't get it. How can you "Buy a tweet"? Does it come with a certificate of authenticity? Once I buy it can I resell it? How do I know I have it? Would anyone like to buy this post? It makes as much sense.

a reply to: schuyler

Digital property is now something collectible, somehow, apparently.
TopShot is for purchasing digital sports highlights namely NBA.

bleacherreport.com...

I don't get it either, but to each thier own.

There are a lot of simpletons in this world that will pay a lot of money for useless garbage.
This is one of the most useless things I have seen.
Maybe I can sell the Tweet that got me banned from Twitter?

In case anyone is interested, I have some tweets for sale too.

My house is in bad need of a new roof.

Anyone?

originally posted by: schuyler
I don't get it. How can you "Buy a tweet"? Does it come with a certificate of authenticity? Once I buy it can I resell it? How do I know I have it? Would anyone like to buy this post? It makes as much sense.

I see it as the same thing as owning a cryptocurrency...

originally posted by: Gravelbone
a reply to: schuyler

Digital property is now something collectible, somehow, apparently.
TopShot is for purchasing digital sports highlights namely NBA.

bleacherreport.com...

I don't get it either, but to each thier own.

It is strange, is it not?

I own a digital pet in Guild Wars 2 that last I checked I could sell for $7,000...

People are crazy.

I've never twitted before,
But for two million dollars I'm in.

I'll be watching the mail box.

I think if you have 2.5 million to waste on a tweet you don’t really deserve to own anything.

I understand collecting rare items and objects, but this doesn’t even exist. If twitter goes down or someone spills orange juice on the server you might as well have burned that 2.5 million. Buy something cool like Jimmi Hendrix’ guitar or something. Jesus Christ.

But you know what they say about a fool and his money...

Fools and their money. *Shrugs*

a reply to: gortex

In reality, how is buying that tweet any different from buying bitcoin. Same principle, a digital signature that has value only because people want it to have value.

a reply to: bigsnowman

I once bought some girl's soul on Ebay for $12.

I still have the certificate of ownership somewhere.

originally posted by: RazorV66
Maybe I can sell the Tweet that got me banned from Twitter?

I’ll give ya 20 bucks for it... I’m sure it’d be good for a good laugh.

The real question is... how do I sell nothing for millions of dollars?

originally posted by: Subaeruginosa

originally posted by: RazorV66
Maybe I can sell the Tweet that got me banned from Twitter?

I’ll give ya 20 bucks for it... I’m sure it’d be good for a good laugh.

I can’t remember the dumwit Liberal’s name but she is a British woman that was really pushing the fake Trump dossier as real, her and one of her goons claimed they had irrefutable evidence of all kinds of stuff on Trump that blew up in their faces.
We had a back and forth on Twitter and she was triggered and must have complained and I was banned.
I wish I could remember her name, apparently she was also a British politician at one time as well.

Edit - I just remembered that nitwit’s name...Louise Mensch
She is a full-time, card carrying delusional Leftist...completely unhinged.

a reply to: RazorV66

I just remembered that nitwit’s name...Louise Mensch
She is a full-time, card carrying delusional Leftist...completely unhinged.

She used to be a Conservative MP , so glad she's annoying people over there instead of over here ... sorry.

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: bigsnowman

I once bought some girl's soul on Ebay for $12.

I still have the certificate of ownership somewhere.

I have my old flatmates soul, I bought it off his ex for 1p