> The object being collected no longer exists in any meaningful sense.
Depends on whether or not you set the thing on fire. But in the case of a tweet, that's rather difficult. Of course the literal original tweet might long ago have hit the bit bucket, scrubbed off an old original server that was dumpstered long ago, and now even the "real" one that showed on twitter was still just a copy.
Not that an NFT with an abstract pointer to the dumpstered server would be any more meaningful.
Depends on whether or not you set the thing on fire. But in the case of a tweet, that's rather difficult. Of course the literal original tweet might long ago have hit the bit bucket, scrubbed off an old original server that was dumpstered long ago, and now even the "real" one that showed on twitter was still just a copy.
Not that an NFT with an abstract pointer to the dumpstered server would be any more meaningful.