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NFTs are just about pointlessly flexing online. It’s a crappy class system, a way for crypto nerds to show off how much money they can spend.
— Ellen Rose (@icklenellierose) January 20, 2022
And they get excited about stuff like this because - as much as they pretend they don’t - they want everyone to care about it SO MUCH. https://t.co/fnNYULhwVD
I predict a browser extension that auto-blocks people with hexagonal avatars would become very popular very fast https://t.co/Sjfombasln
— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) January 20, 2022
twitter will now allow users to prove that they spent $400,000 on an atrocious cartoon ape
— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA) January 20, 2022
besides this generally being obnoxious, connecting your crypto wallet to your Twitter account seems like a spectacularly bad idea. What could go wrong? https://t.co/R96OV37AUl
— Ian Coldwater ?? (@IanColdwater) January 20, 2022
Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022
BTW when you start seeing people with the hex avatars, don't reply, don't quote retweet, just ignore or block them.
— foone (@Foone) January 20, 2022
Twitter hasn't missed that a lot of users hate this. Twitter is counting on it.
gm!
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) January 20, 2022
You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now rolling out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS pic.twitter.com/HFyspS4cQW
profile pictures: a visual history pic.twitter.com/20xWdgF28r
— Jordan Singer (@jsngr) January 20, 2022
Gonna have so much fun right-clicking these, flipping them and reselling them https://t.co/R41Z2cswcx
— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) January 20, 2022
Biggest moment for NFTs since the Beeple sale? https://t.co/ZErU6bFdu0
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) January 20, 2022
Wait wait wait. So the NFT bros have to PAY to have their profile pic a NFT??? Lmaooooo. So they legit to pay to get bullied on this app. Hilarious. https://t.co/f37AV0SVYt
— Mightykeef (@MightyKeef) January 20, 2022
if you're not a Blue subscriber, have no fear. See an NFT pfp you like? just right-click, save https://t.co/88BSx2b6cI
— Thomas Maxwell (@tomaxwell) January 20, 2022
I'm not mad at Twitter's NFT avatar feature, I'm mad that it took this long for Twitter to ship *any* avatar feature. There are so many things they could have/could do there...
— Drew Breunig (@dbreunig) January 20, 2022
NFT profile pics are a great feature actually. just imagine if Facebook tagged that high school acquaintance who "just reached out to catch up" with a little Herbalife logo so you know to ignore them.
— Geoff Thew (@G0ffThew) January 20, 2022
lmaooooo
— thot leedurr (@DocDre) January 21, 2022
"...if you sell the NFT that’s in your profile Twitter will continue to display the image, regardless of who owns it. however, it will revert to a common circle frame instead of the crypto wallet-only hexagon shape"https://t.co/X6QD1B5vaG
There's actually a MAJOR PROBLEM with the new Twitter PFP feature.
— Adam Hollander (@HollanderAdam) January 20, 2022
It appears to work for ANY NFT in your collection. Not just verified collections.
That means someone can just right-click-save any NFT, mint it, and then use it as their PFP ?
You were so close Twitter. Why ?
The digital equivalent of wearing a "kick me" sign. https://t.co/eNRj7nfwok
— CaptainSauce (@TheCaptainSauce) January 20, 2022
Twitter Blue subscribers will have an option to use NFTs as profile pictures, with distinctive hexagonal format
— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) January 20, 2022
“Crypto is a key pillar of Twitter’s future”https://t.co/RrzPaKmsMS
So just to be clear Twitter wasn't super interested in finding a way to mark accounts of actual medical professionals during a two year pandemic but sure had time to work on give special profiles to NFT owners
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) January 21, 2022
Paul’s leadership was ?instrumental? to all of this https://t.co/wFyk4R2cRl
— Tess Rinearson (@_tessr) January 20, 2022
Subscribers of @TwitterBlue can now verify an NFT they own as their profile photo! NFT profile pics will show up as hexagonal avatars, and tapping on them will show metadata about the NFT. https://t.co/ieQJWdggi7
— Kayvon Beykpour (@kayvz) January 20, 2022
I for one am absolutely shocked that a decentralized system doesn’t work in practice for basic uniqueness or verification constraints and users would end up be asking for what we’d refer to as a central authority for both. https://t.co/jLLwdOJObi
— Nick Craver (@Nick_Craver) January 21, 2022
It makes sense you have to pay to use NFT profile pictures on Twitter https://t.co/995RN7YEtk
— Richard MacManus (@ricmac) January 20, 2022
This got a belly laugh out of me. https://t.co/NoWnUbXwkT
— Alex Olney (@Alex_Olney) January 21, 2022
Working as intended.
— tante (@tante) January 21, 2022
(I love how NFT people now follow the old industry path of basically demanding restrictive DRM as I predicted when these things emerged) https://t.co/62uVmIOm1h
Just give us back the animated profile pics and don’t make this sh*t https://t.co/QUfJhNNukz
— ? ɴ ᴏ ᴇ | JW madrid/barcelona (@NoeArtS) January 21, 2022
Once upon a time, if you saw an egg avatar or a fairly specific kind of anime picture, you could guess that was a Twitter account to avoid.
— Richard Lawler (@rjcc) January 20, 2022
Now Twitter is helpfully giving NFT profile pictures their own special shape, and you can decide what to do with that information. https://t.co/fPHv8mXHxB
This made me realize that NFTs could spark a DMCA of images all over the Internet how it’s already done for movies and music. Imagine having your profile picture be your idol, let’s say Mohammed Ali, but someone purchased that NFT of that image,& you get DMCA striked for using it https://t.co/gjTXOKJK6v
— Kyle Baker (@kylebaker) January 20, 2022
Far and away the funniest part of this is Twitter putting this feature behind their subscription paywall because they realized nft bros will pay for anything https://t.co/f9fzJ1qF3V
— Freddie Wong (@fwong) January 20, 2022
OK, OK, OK...
— Adam Hollander (@HollanderAdam) January 20, 2022
There are far too many comments to continue addressing them 1-1. So here's a bunch of thoughts in no particular order.
1. I agree that verification on OpenSea is an unmitigated disaster and ideally shouldn't be the basis of the new Twitter NFT PFP feature.
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Real issue here is that most GIF search engines, which mostly just using GIPHY's API, tend to surface old references. Twitter search is a notorious offender.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) January 20, 2022
So you end up with the common GIFs being things that were popular 10+ years ago like The Office.https://t.co/SYuuFfkgTZ
Ready to show off your NFT? Follow these simple steps to connect your crypto wallet and let’s see your NFT PFPs! pic.twitter.com/epSL7VXG5o
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) January 20, 2022
You heard it here. “Crypto is a key pillar of Twitter’s future”https://t.co/OERWP3HAef
— Victoria (Ghost in the Shell) (@BurrdDoh) January 20, 2022
1/ Attn Twitter fam! Today we’re excited to see @Twitter launch their new NFT Profile Pictures feature, powered by OpenSea's API https://t.co/7eYyctWGWZ
— OpenSea (@opensea) January 20, 2022
Beyond excited to power @Twitter’s new NFT Profile Picture feature on @TwitterBlue. Monumental moment for NFT & Web3 communities, Twitter and @QuickNode. Super proud of all involved in making this a reality and look forward to seeing your NFTs on Twitter! #NewNFTProfilePic https://t.co/92UmqPNMaB
— QuickNode ? We're Hiring! ? (@QuickNode) January 20, 2022
This ably demonstrates the paradox of web3:
— Brett Winton (@wintonARK) January 21, 2022
Why pay the high cost for decentralization
when you ultimately require a centralized validator
to deem which owned assets
are “legitimately” owned? https://t.co/EMFNWSYeJK
Thank you twitter for easily showing me who I shouldn't interact with https://t.co/U6fj3p7Qbn
— Jon Cartwright (@JonComms) January 20, 2022
wow, who thought it was possible to be even less cool Online https://t.co/Zg55DApnqh
— David Ruddock (@RDRv3) January 20, 2022
Says the man who sold a flamethrower and novelty tequila https://t.co/5D4R9DoXrd
— Simon Sharwood (@ssharwood) January 21, 2022
Let's decentralize the internet and cut out the gatekeepers!
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) January 21, 2022
(Gatekeepers get cut out)
Wait, no, not *those* gatekeepers! https://t.co/hYKV5E9MEm
NFT Profile Photos are here!
— Justin Taylor (@TheSmarmyBum) January 20, 2022
Connect your wallet and get started today! pic.twitter.com/Qbjkmlwt3Y
Today Twitter becomes one of the first social networks to build NFTs into the app itself
— Alex Atallah (alexatallah.eth) (@xanderatallah) January 20, 2022
Powered by OpenSea ? https://t.co/n1YP4HgBBl
Twitter has just launched NFT profile photos. They’re hexagon-shaped https://t.co/7sotIVLHSn pic.twitter.com/fhnWijgVyi
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) January 20, 2022
Twitter Rolls Out Verified NFT Profile Picture Feature
— NonFungible.com (@nonfungibles) January 21, 2022
According to @nonfungibles, there has been $517 million in #NFT sales over the past week. It reported that 277,509 NFTs have been sold on primary and secondary markets.https://t.co/h7S996Bo9j via @Crypto_Potato
Twitterが検証済みのNFTプロフィール写真機能を公開https://t.co/0aEsw6hpWP
— コイン海外速報 -仮想通貨ニュース- (@CoinNewsFlash) January 21, 2022
ICYMI: Elon Musk dunks on Twitter’s integration with NFTshttps://t.co/zIJXSJyDov
— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 21, 2022
Elon Musk dunks on Twitter’s integration with NFTshttps://t.co/zIJXSJyDov
— The Block (@TheBlock__) January 21, 2022
'Behind this decision is an assumption that users on all three social media sites want to be involved in buying, selling, and displaying NFTs. But none have provided evidence to back up this assumption.' Great as always by @stokel https://t.co/5mA7xtNwrc
— Natasha Bernal (@TashaBernal) January 21, 2022
I got asked this afternoon to look at what impact the entry of Meta and Twitter into the NFT world would look like by @TashaBernal. Here's the story for @WiredUK https://t.co/xifg23ZCEA
— Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel) January 21, 2022
트위터, 트위터 블루 가입자 대상 NFT 프로필 사진 지원 시작 관련 WSJ 기사
— lunamoth (@lunamoth) January 21, 2022
NFT 에 관심 없는 저 같은 사람들에게는 육각형 프사 이상으로는 느껴지지 않을듯
Twitter Embraces NFTs With New Profile-Picture Feature - WSJ https://t.co/09sR2adqgc
"This is annoying," Elon Musk says of Twitter’s development of profile pictures linked to NFTs https://t.co/Q1mUIq28qr
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) January 21, 2022