Why It Matters That Jack Dorsey Sold His First Tweet

Time itself is now for sale

Frederick Kaufman
OneZero
Published in
3 min readMar 8, 2021

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The world’s first tweet is now for sale as an NFT, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced last week. In an article about the news for CNN Business, writer Jazmin Goodwin details how NFTs (that is, non-fungible tokens) have become a way to buy and sell what were once unique and ephemeral spots of time—not only Jack Dorsey’s primal…

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Frederick Kaufman
OneZero

Professor of journalism, magazine writer, author of The Money Plot: A History of Currency’s Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate.