You can spend millions to own Jack Dorsey's first tweet as an NFT, for some reason

Sure, there's an economic recession with no end in sight, but Jack Dorsey's first tweet is available for an ungodly sum of money if you happen to have that much lying around.

The Twitter co-founder and CEO tweeted out a link to a digital auction for the right to own his very first tweet in non-fungible token (or NFT) form on Friday. The price has periodically skyrocketed ever since, with the highest offer sitting at a whopping $1.5 million at the time of this writing. It was a mere $1 million about half an hour prior, to give you an idea of how fast it's going up.

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