San Francisco:
Fifteen years ago Jack Dorsey typed out a banal message — “just setting up my twttr” — which became the initial ever tweet, launching a worldwide platform that has develop into a controversial and dominant force in civil society.
The brief tweet on March 21, 2006 by the Twitter CEO is now becoming sold at auction, with bidding reaching $2.5 million.
It has been a lengthy, strange journey for the social network, which in January deleted former president Donald Trump’s account immediately after he was blamed for inciting the violent insurrection on the US Capitol in January by extremist supporters in search of to overturn his election loss.
The banning of a head of state from the platform was each welcomed and denounced in a sign of the thin line Twitter and other social media networks normally attempt to stroll among neutrality, freedom of expression, and moderation and prevention of abuse.
Bidding on Dorsey’s tweet ends later Sunday. He has stated he will donate the funds to charity.
Dorsey’s tweet will be sold as an NFT, or a non-fungible token.
NFTs use the very same blockchain technologies behind cryptocurrencies to turn something from art to sports trading cards into virtual collector’s things that can not be duplicated.
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