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First-ever tweet sold for Sh318.69 million

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for just over USD2.9 million (Sh318.69 million) dollars on Monday.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, on November 12, 2018. [Reuters]

The tweet is in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) - a kind of unique digital asset that has exploded in popularity so far in 2021.

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