Can a tweet be a work of art?

Image from the video 'Rokoko Monolith', auctioned by singer Grimes and her brother, Mac Boucher.

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, then a twenty-something from Missouri who had just founded Twitter, typed the first tweet in history: “Just setting up my twttr”, that is, “setting up my twttr” (that's what it was called then the social network).

Billions more followed that message.

Twitter grew and grew.

And then someone thought that tweet could be a work of art.

Or, better yet, some kind of collector's item that no one was going to be able to touch, but could still own.

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