Jack Dorsey has listed his original tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, as an NFT on auction site Valuables
Apparently you can actually sell your tweets as NFT — Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter, a man who stans bitcoin right on his Twitter bio …
The VergeJay Peters
Context & Ripple Effects
Dorsey’s listing put a historically notable Twitter post into Valuables’ model for selling tweets as Ethereum-based NFTs, a service operated by crypto company Cent. The auction quickly drew bids reaching $2.5 million and later closed at nearly $2.92 million, turning a social-media artifact into a high-profile test of NFT ownership claims.
The subsequent resale attempt is the important qualification: the NFT that sold for $2.9 million later attracted a maximum bid of 2 ETH, about $6,200. The sequence separates the value of Dorsey’s initial sale and charitable donation from the market value a later buyer was willing to assign to the token.
First-order effects
Valuables gains visibility and transaction demand by hosting an auction tied to Twitter’s co-founder and the platform’s first post.
Dorsey’s listing creates a tradable NFT linked to the tweet, with the initial auction ultimately producing proceeds he said were sent to GiveDirectly’s Africa fund as BTC.
Second-order effects
Other creators and NFT marketplaces receive a prominent signal that social posts can be packaged as collectible tokens, intensifying competition for recognizable online artifacts.
The later resale result forces buyers and platforms to distinguish a headline-grabbing primary auction from repeatable secondary-market demand for the same token.
Third-order effects
If creator-post NFTs continue to depend on singular moments and famous sellers, their market will favor scarce provenance events over a broad, liquid market for ordinary social-media posts.
The gap between the initial sale and later bid indicates that NFT ownership alone does not establish durable pricing; platforms’ ability to sustain buyer confidence and resale liquidity becomes central.
The trend: NFT platforms are testing whether digital provenance can turn culturally significant social posts into collectibles, while secondary-market pricing tests the durability of that claim.
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Daniel Jalkut on x
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Mark on x
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