Just one yr in the past, Twitter (now X) announced that paid customers on the positioning might set an NFT as their profile image. Douchebags rejoiced, as their three favourite issues — NFTs, web-based opinion-sharing, and ostentatious shows of crypto wealth — coalesced into a comfy Venn diagram with Twitter on the middle. However alas, nothing pure can survive, even issues purely silly.
The place as soon as blue-checked jabronis might load their Bored Apes and Beeples right into a particular avatar hexagon that distinguished them from the hoi polloi and their little circles, the function has been eliminated with out fanfare.
The change is a product of the corporate’s New Year’s resolutions for 2024, chief amongst them to become an “all the things app.” New features within the works embody AI-optimized advert focusing on of customers and peer-to-peer funds.
Let’s face it, if Jimmy Fallon is the poster baby on your scenario, you’re just about doomed. One can solely hope this continues the encouraging pattern of nobody occupied with NFTs anymore. We’re so heartened to listen to this, it nearly makes up for the devastation of agreeing with Elon Musk about one thing. Let’s have a bit of sympathy for the man, huh? He’s taking an absolute bathtub over there, with the corporate’s latest internet value diminished by at least half since he purchased it for $44 billion in 2022. Perhaps he’s simply hoping that if he eliminates the letters “N,” “F,” and “T” from the platform, we are going to contemplate calling it “X.” Good luck with that, Elon, and good riddance, NFT avatars.
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