Twitter launched NFT profile pictures – people are crazy
I envy your internet if you don’t meet ” NFT » (Non-Fungible Token) once a day. They are not enthusiasts; even big tech companies want to explore and integrate this new technology into their services. Last week, Twitter became the first major platform to introduce profile pictures based on Non-Fungible Token -NFT-. The problem is that it has not been well received by its user base as a whole.
Here’s how this feature works on the bird site: If you’ve bought or hit a NFT on an Etherum-based market, you can set it as your profile picture, and it will appear in the hex shape. Press the tweet below to see hex avatar on app or website Twitter.
However, there are some limitations. You must have a subscription Twitter Blue, which is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Additionally, you must have an iOS device to set a NFT as a profile picture. You can read more about the requirements and procedures for defining a NFT as your profile picture here.
Whereas Twitter thought this might be a good idea, a ton of users were unhappy with this step.
Hiccups and reactions
Many people, including Elon Musk, thought this throttling feature was annoying and would give people with hex avatars a bit more entitlement. The head of Tesla thought that Twitter should spend more engineering talent to block crypto spammers. Why should he? He has been the favorite personality for scammers to impersonate.
Even supporters of NFT weren’t really impressed. It was frustrating for people who weren’t using an iOS device because they couldn’t set their second-hand NFTs as profile pictures. iOS exclusivity for a feature is bad form for a company as large as Twitter ; there’s no good excuse to exclude Android users in 2022, even if it’s temporary.
A few hours after deployment, OpenSea APIs – a market NFT popular – were down, causing some users to Twitter with an NFT avatar to display blank pictures as profile pictures. It’s a real disappointment.
In addition, there were concerns regarding verification of NFT. As a user, Adam Hollander pointed out that, as Twitter simply checks if an NFT is linked to your wallet, it is difficult to differentiate at a glance which NFTs are part of an exclusive collection.
Before Twitter don’t roll out this feature, a ton of people had NFT popular, such as those in the collection Bored Ape Yacht Club, like avatars. like their avatars. But there was no way to tell if these were real NFTs or just JPEG images of them.
The new social network feature will allow you to click/tap on a hex image to check various attributes of the NFT, such as token ID, blockchain type, and collection it belongs to. You can see an example in the screenshot of these details below.
People also make templates for hex profile pictures, so you can make your regular avatar picture look like a picture NFT. Thus, it is still the user’s responsibility to click on a profile picture and read the details to identify if an NFT belongs to a prestigious collection. It’s too much work.
This new feature provides users with Twitter a transparent and user-friendly way to verify ownership of NFTs by allowing them to directly connect their crypto wallets to Twitter and select a NFT in their collection as their new profile picture. We will monitor user feedback from Twitter Blue Labs and will share additional updates as we get them.
If you’re an NFT owner who doesn’t own an iOS device or don’t have a subscription Twitter Bluea tool called Show My NFT will randomly update your profile picture on the platform from your collection.
As more and more people buy or try to understand the NFT, the company’s deployment was by no means ideal or inclusive. It should include many cultural and technical caveats to make it a more acceptable feature across the board.
Twitter is not the only social network looking to link NFTs to profile pictures. As the Financial Times noted last week, Meta is working on features that will allow users to show their NFT via profile avatars on Facebook and Instagram. So this trend isn’t going away anytime soon – but hopefully it dies out faster than dalgona coffee.