Official integration of conspicuous consumption into the Twitter app is now.
Twitter announced Thursday that it has a new feature that allows TwitterBlue subscribers to iOS to link nonfungible tokens with their profile pictures. After this is done, the Twitter profile pic will have a hexagonal border rather than a circle. Users will be able to click on the image to view information about the NFT.
A Twitter press release explains that “This new feature allows people on Twitter to verify NFT ownership by allowing users to connect their crypto wallets directly to Twitter and choose an NFT from the collection as their profile picture.”
Although the release mentions plans to bring this feature to Android as well as the web, it does not give any specific timeline. The current price for a Twitter Blue subscription is $2.99 per month.
Twitter’s decision follows a growing trend in people using images associated with NFTs such as the Bored Ape Yacht Club cartoon apes as profile pictures. It allows users to designate their profile picture to be tied to an NFT. This could be seen as an attempt to counter another online trend: people right-click saving JPEGs associated with NFTs and then use those images to create profile pictures.
Twitter has set a limit on how NFTs can link to profile photos. The Twitter spokeswoman confirmed that this restriction applies only to NFTs created on the Ethereum blockchain.
The spokesperson explained via email that “we’re currently focusing our attention on Ethereum for the first iteration to get this right before moving onto any other chains.”
To make this work, users will need to use one of the following cryptocurrency wallets to store their NFTs: Coinbase Wallet or Rainbow, MetaMask Trust, Argent, Trust, Argent, Ledger Live, Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust, and Argent.
The future is boundless and bright.
