Twitter bets on NFTs and will now allow users to use them as a profile picture

On By Garmin Philip

The blue bird social network is still determined that NFTs and cryptocurrencies are the future, now it will allow users to use avatars taken from their virtual wallets.

Over the last few months, Twitter has undergone a series of changes that many users have not liked. And, it is that, the way of monetizing in the social network has given a direct swerve to the world of cryptocurrencies and by extension to NFTs.

Yes, the social network of the little blue bird is fully involved in this world and one of its latest movements is quite controversial. Twitter will allow some users to use NFTs as avatars on the social network.

It may seem that this movement does not have any kind of complexity or that it is simply a new way to attract the attention of a certain group of people. But the reality is much more complicated.

NFTs are certificates that indicate the ownership of a type of file, despite the fact that in the case of Twitter they are images; the truth is they can be anything capable of being translated into code.

And, it is that, over the last few weeks we have seen how this world has exploded in popularity, managing to generate surreal situations. In fact, the last thing that has been known is the news of a young man who has sold his selfies for more than a million euros.

Returning to Twitter, what we find is a purely distinctive implementation. Having any NFT as a profile image will confer a certain status to the person who is carrying said file.

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Of course, to do this and, well, so that NFTs can show off on the social network users will be obliged to link their cryptocurrency wallet in which they have said element. This can cause many users to back off.

In addition, so that people with NFT in their profiles are more identifiable, those of Twitter will grant them the honor that the shape of the container of this image is a hexagon and not a circle.

Users who want and can put an NFT as an avatar must do so from Twitter Blue and, for the moment, only those who have devices with the Apple operating system for smartphones will be able to.

For the time being, and truthfully, as almost always, Android users will have to wait until the social network takes them into account for this type of proposal. Now it only remains to see how Instagram profiles evolve from circles to hexagons.



Reference-computerhoy.com