Colm O'Regan: The founder of Twitter sold his first tweet for a few million euro

From selling recordings of farts to Whatsapp messages and Youtube clips, having digital proof that you own a digital thing is the latest way to make money

NFTs are the bees knees now

By the time you read this, I might already be a millionaire. I’ll still continue to do the column, of course. It would be my duty to report back from the 1%, to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be. I’ll tone it down, of course. I won’t be talking about the Treble Crunch Crisps or the Tesco Finest.

How do I plan to make the money? It’s not prize bonds. I’ve given up on them a long time ago, with their teasing, ’you have won zero hundred thousand, zero ten thousand, zero thousand, zero hundred, one 50euro’ prize cheques.