Tweets to go

There’s something to be said about ultra-short attention spans and Twitter’s 280-character limit (which, by the way, is double what was initially allowed). What we can’t say is that penning down your thoughts, however brief, is worthless. The billionaire co-founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey has sold his first tweet for US$2.9 million (S$3.81 million) on Valuables, a marketplace dedicated to autographed tweets. That’s about $152,000 a character! The proceeds went to GiveDirectly, a non-profit that helps families with Covid-19 in Africa.