X (Former Twitter) Refreshed for the New Year! NFT Profile Picture Feature Removed, Introducing Peer-to-Peer Payment System.
Techcrunch reports that social media platform Twitter, now known as X, has officially stopped supporting NFTs as profile pictures for its paying subscribers, and the related page descriptions have been deleted. However, the company had previously revealed its intention to launch a peer-to-peer payment system, indicating its continued commitment to exploring blockchain technology applications.
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X will no longer support NFT avatars
Kraken co-founder: Removal of NFT avatar feature is a setback for the industry
X’s New Year prospects
According to the report, X seems to have quietly removed support for NFT avatars (PFP) among its premium subscribers in a recent system update.
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Previous NFT Profile Picture feature of X
It is understood that this feature was initially launched in January 2022, allowing Twitter Blue subscribers to use NFTs minted on Ethereum (ERC-721 or ERC-1155 tokens) as their NFT avatars, presented in a hexagonal image in their profiles.
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Other users were able to click on someone’s NFT avatar to learn more details about the NFTs, such as the collection series, contract address, and token ID.
Now, this feature and its related descriptions have been removed.
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The introduction and description of NFT avatars on X’s X Premium support page clearly stated:
“As a premium subscriber, you can create and customize your profile, showcasing the NFTs you own using a personal profile picture on your account. By connecting to your personal crypto wallet to verify your ownership of the NFT and setting it as your avatar, the digital asset will be displayed as a special hexagonal image.”
Previously, social media giant Meta’s Instagram and Facebook also attempted to introduce NFT features in their applications, but they were eventually removed after April last year.
Currently, users who still have NFT avatars can keep the hexagonal avatar, but they can no longer view detailed token information.
Jesse Powell, co-founder of Kraken, expressed his regret on the platform, stating that X’s discontinuation of NFT PFP is a setback for the industry. He believes that the reason the feature was not widely adopted is because it was not used correctly, such as in terms of signatures and ownership proofs.
However, even when the feature was designed, CEO Elon Musk criticized it, saying, “Twitter is devoting engineering resources to things that are pointless, while crypto scammers have block parties in every tweet.”
Therefore, the removal of this feature may not come as a surprise.
That being said, it is worth mentioning that X’s recently announced 2024 retrospective and plans outlined several exciting visions. These include:
Shifting focus to video: X will become a video-centric platform, where users will see video content 8 out of 10 times.
Introducing artificial intelligence: X will enhance user search, similar content viewing, and advertising experiences through Grok AI.
Launching a peer-to-peer payment system: X aims to attract more users and unlock new business opportunities through this.
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