Twitter and NFT tokens

At the moment, the feature can only be tested by subscribers to a platform service called Twitter Blue, which costs $2.99 each month. To verify your NFT as an avatar, you need to connect a cryptocurrency wallet like Coinbase Wallet, Rainbow, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Argent or Ledger Live, then select the unique token you want in it.

Here’s the tweet with which Twitter representatives announced the novelty release.

The whole process takes just seconds. Meanwhile, user avatars with a verified NFT will have a hexagonal border, as opposed to the usual round image of the account. According to Cointelegraph, the initiative is the social platform’s most visible step so far towards the unique token trend.

In addition, users can learn more about each other’s NFT tokens, as well as their collections, authors, authenticity and so on. Twitter noted that the platform will store a user’s cryptocurrency wallet address to continuously check if their NFT token is there. Incidentally, if a user sells their token while it is still their avatar, other users will not see it – the avatar description will not contain information about the originality of token ownership.

“Special” avatars will be highlighted in a hexagon

For now, the feature is only available in the iOS app, but installed avatars can be seen by users of all operating systems. NFT support is severely limited - for now, the innovation only works with static JPEG or PNG images linked to the NFT standard ERC-721 or ERC-1155 on the Etherium blockchain.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the platform’s founder, had previously stepped down as CEO. We assume he would not have liked the latest announcement: Dorsey has previously stated that he is not a fan of Web3 and everything related to it. That said, though, he did sell his first tweet in the form of an NFT token himself.

Also, the innovation of NFT avatars is notable because today’s management has not been afraid to go down the path of further integration of crypto projects. For example, earlier a similar decision on the part of Discord platform developers was met with a flurry of criticism from the community, which eventually forced the management to abandon the plans.

Tesla CEO and billionaire Ilon Musk also commented on the Twitter news. In general, he did not like the idea – he considers it “intrusive” and impractical, as the social network has not yet solved the problem of spambots, which often deceive ordinary users by promoting fake cryptocurrency giveaways:

Twitter is wasting engineering resources on this nonsense while cryptocurrency scammers are throwing spam-bot blocking hangouts in every thread?!

Tesla CEO Ilon Musk

Ilon himself has had problems for years with bots that constantly pass off his profiles as his identity in an attempt to scam his victims. The billionaire has even repeatedly approached Dorsey, but as you can see, the problem has not yet been solved. But now the users have the opportunity to prove to everyone that their NFTs are really “unique”.


We think Twitter's initiative is the right one. Firstly, the potential of NFT tokens is much broader than just proving ownership of pictures, which means they will become even more popular in the future. Second, there is clearly no escape from this trend, as even stars who are not connected to the blockchain world now own unique tokens.

For example, the purchase of an NFT from the Bored Ape Yacht Club series was revealed the day before by celebrity footballer Neumeyer. Judging by the data from the blockchain, he spent 159.99 ETH on it.

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