Twitter has introduced a new feature that allows some users to display non-fungible tokens (NFTs) they own as their profile pictures on the social media platform.
Using the feature, which is initially available to Twitter Blue subscribers on the iOS app, users can set a special hexagon-shaped NFT profile picture.
Users will need to connect their supported crypto wallet to their Twitter account to use the feature, which only supports static image NFTs currently, according to the platform. Twitter users can see details about the NFT by tapping on the profile picture and then selecting view NFT details.
NFTs have grown in popularity during the last year, with the sales volumes of these blockchain-based digital assets touching billions of dollars in 2021. And Twitter’s announcement marks a big push into NFTs.
Last November, the microblog platform also revealed its plan to build a new unit dubbed Twitter Crypto for “all things are blockchain in Twitter”. Led by Tess Rinearson, the team will focus on Crypto, blockchains and other technologies.
Around that time, Twitter’s Blue subscription service, which was launched in June last year, was expanded to users in the U.S. and New Zealand with features like reader mode, app icons, as well as the ability to undo a tweet within 30 seconds of posting. It gives the subscribers early access to features that the microblog platform is testing.
Besides, the announcement brings the 211 million daily active users on the social media platform closer to the blockchain technology and unique crypto assets stored on it.
At launch, the company is supporting a few crypto wallets, including Argent, Coinbase Wallet, Ledger Live, Rainbow, and Trust Wallet.
The social media site has begun rolling out a new feature that lets Twitter Blue subscribers to verify their own NFTs and display them in their profile images for $2.99 per month. This feature were the part of Twitter's "Labs" feature, replaces your traditional circular profile photo with a hexagonal profile photo is powered with Quick Node API. The hex-shaped photo may be shown on your Twitter account from any platform. However, users can only alter their profiles on the iOS app.
That means users can finally figure out which of their Twitter, often the most irritating. We've got a whole new status symbol in town now that so many folks have blue checks.
Twitter will include a little indicator indicating that the NFT has been validated, so we can all see who owns those ugly monkeys and who merely downloaded a JPEG of the same ugly monkey photo. Other users will see a great deal of information about the NFT if they click on the profile photo. The Twitter Blue account, for example, updated their profile image to an NFT they created. When you click on it, you'll learn who produced it, what it's about, what qualities it has, which blockchain it's kept on, and more.
The basis of NFTs is a specific notion of what it means to "own" digital art. Anyone may reproduce a specific NFT with a single right-click, but evidence of ownership on their preferred blockchain is vital for collectors and cryptocurrency aficionados.
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