World News Headlines January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling 0 Twitter makes it possible to link NFTs to profile pics (for a price) 0 0000 0 0 more Twitter makes it possible to link NFTs to profile pics (for a price) January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling now playing Transferring money from UAE abroad: what are my cheapest options January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling WIN With Nespresso This Mother’s Day January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling NBA Playoffs 2022: A Casual Fan's Guide to the Postseason January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling Best New Climbing Gear of 2022 January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling A Local Weekend Travel Guide to Austin, Texas January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling First Drive: 2022 Range Rover Ups the Luxury SUV Experience January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling Most Stylish Rain Jackets, Parkas, and Trench Coats for Men January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling EU eyes Russian oil import ban as Moscow strikes western Ukraine January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling World-class Clark Int’l Airport opens new 110,000 square-meter passenger terminal January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling PCG: Bodies of 5 children who drowned in Taal Lake found January 21, 2022 Under One Ceiling Twitter makes it possible to link NFTs to profile pics (for a price) Conspicuous consumption is now officially integrated into the Twitter app. The social media giant announced Thursday a new feature which lets paying Twitter Blue subscribers on iOS officially link non-fungible tokens to their profile pictures. Once done, the Twitter profile pic in question will display with a hexagonal border instead of a circle, and users will be able to click the picture for information about the associated NFT. “This new feature provides a seamless, user-friendly way for people on Twitter to verify their NFT ownership by allowing them to directly connect their crypto wallets to Twitter and select an NFT from their collection as their new profile picture,” explains a Twitter press release. The release also notes plans to bring the feature to Android and the web, but does not mention a specific timeline for doing so. A Twitter Blue subscription currently costs $2.99 per month. Tweet may have been deleted Twitter’s move follows on the growing trend of people using images linked to NFTs, such as the cartoon apes of the Bored Ape Yacht Club, as profiles pictures on social media. By allowing users to officially designate their profile picture as tied to an NFT, it can perhaps be read as an effort to combat another online trend: people right-click saving the JPEGs associated with NFTs and using those images as profile pictures, too. See the hexagonal profile picture? Credit: Screenshot: Twitter Notably, Twitter has placed some limitation on which NFTs can be linked to profile pictures. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that, at least for now, this only works with NFTs minted on the Ethereum blockchain. “We’re currently focusing on Ethereum for our first iteration to get it right before moving onto other chains,” explained the spokesperson over email. SEE ALSO: NFT owners insist they’re totally not owned by ‘right-click savers’ What’s more, for this to work, “for now” users must use one of six cryptocurrency wallets to store their NFTs: Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust, Argent, or Ledger Live. The permissionless future sure is bright. Related Related posts: US says it is working on contingency plans in case Iran continues nuclear advances and refuses to return to talks China’s Singles’ Day shopping fest muted amid tech crackdown Xiomara Castro becomes Honduras’ first female president Across Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, Russia’s strategy is hard to see tags: RSS Feed World News 0000 0 0 previous The Samsung Galaxy Buds Live are at their lowest price to date at Amazon next Tesla snubbed in latest driver monitoring safety ratings from Consumer Reports
