Twitter (currently known as X) ends NFT profile picture support
Mention of NFTs in Twitter's Premium subscription info page has been recently and quietly removed.
It would appear that Twitter (now known as X) is shutting down its support of NFT profile pictures on its social media platform. While Elon Musk originally took Twitter in a direction that supports cryptocurrency and NFTs, the hype on non-fungible tokens in general has died down quite a bit since. The removal of NFT support from the Twitter Premium pages marks another group withdrawing from the once popular commodity.
Twitter’s removal of NFTs from its Premium subscriber information page was spotted via TechCrunch. Originally, under the header labeled “Features available to every Premium tier,” there was a “Create a Community” section that explained how you could set an NFT as a profile pic after linking Twitter to a crypto wallet. The user’s profile pic would then have a special hexagonal border to signify it was a confirmed NFT. There were further mentions of NFTs, exactly how to set them as profile pics, and other details about their usage on Twitter, as preserved in a previous version of the page in the Internet Archive.
Source: Twitter
All mention of NFTs have now been scrubbed from the live page on Twitter’s support website. Some users may still have hexagonal bordered profile pictures, but it remains to be seen if that will last much longer.
Twitter adopted NFT support at the start of January 2022 as a feature of its subscription service, then known as Twitter Blue. Elon Musk has signaled intent several times that he would like Twitter to become a financial institution as well as a social media platform, where people might bank and invest their money rather than traditional banks. NFTs and the option to link a crypto wallet could be seen as part of that initiative. However, NFTs hardly have the heft they had in 2022. The market is not dead, but its values have plummeted from their highs, due in part to legal matters such as the IRS wanting to tax them as collectibles.
Twitter hasn’t formally announced it is quitting support of NFTs, but the implications of their removal from information pages arguably speak volumes. Stay tuned as we follow this story for further updates.
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replyTJ Denzer posted a new article, Twitter (currently known as X) ends NFT profile picture support
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NFTs... lol
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Not For Twitter
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a feature from when Jack Dorsey was insisting we were moments away from runaway hyperinflation ruining the economy. Idiot Twitter CEO challenge continues unabated.
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Twitter has been called X for almost 6 months. At what point do media companies stop explaining X was formally called Twitter and admit that if readers don't know what service X is, then that's X's shitty branding.
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I think Shacknews is doing that here. But other media companies say X, formerly Twitter.
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I wrote the headline, and I did it because I like to inject fun into this place. It's in my programming.
You'll see we still refer to Facebook instead of Meta a lot on our site as well. Same with Google instead of Alphabet.
Most of the time, we do this to cover our search engine optimization bases. In the case of this article, I suggested this headline because X is a dumb name and Elon's dumb ass needs to be made fun of as much as possible.
We will probably continue to do it as it clearly got more engagement than if we went with the more sterile X (formerly known as Twitter) headline.
Once again, we will do it because making fun of billionaires is fun. In moderation, of course.-
I admit I didn't realize you had done the switcheroo on "X formerly know as" part. My original comment wasn't intended as criticism of this article title. It was more a acceptance that Elon did a dumb thing and when are media companies in general going to stop enabling his dumb thing? That's not even the correct term. More like just saying "you want to be called X? Sure. We'll call you X because its been months and that's your name. If people don't go to your platform because they don't understand what X is, then that's on you Elon."
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people still refer to Comcast, Facebook, etc
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That's not what I mean. I mean news agencies explicitly say "x, formerly Twitter." I don't recall reading "Meta, formerly Facebook" for nearly every news story.
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well news agencies have to communicate to their customers and if all their customers keep mostly thinking of it as Twitter and never register it as Twitter if it's just called X then the news sorta has their hand forced by consumer sentiment
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Yep, legendarily terrible branding. It's literally a variable that can stand in for anything. It's like naming your platform Somewhere.
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It's not media companies' responsibility to normalize shitty branding of another company, especially when the shitty branding is, unintentionally or otherwise, trying to override the meaning society already places on it which has nothing to do with the company formerly called Twitter. "X" is a universal stand-in for unnamed, places, people, things, or ideas. That concept has more utility to the billions of people out there than some wackadoo internet company.
Even people who smoke weed had the presence of mind to call them "roach clips" because they knew "pot holder" was already taken. -
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X isn't even their URL.
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That's funny because I would try to go to x.com first if I saw a reference that something was on X without a link.
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