X Ends Support for NFTs as Profile Pictures

On January 9, social medium X made an announcement for the platform’s 2024 vision, which includes introducing more AI tools and peer-to-peer payments. However, the platform did away with a feature for paid subscribers – they can’t set an NFT as a profile picture anymore, TechCrunch observed.

Twitter supported NFTs minted on Ethereum

The platform’s previous management launched the feature in January 2022, when Twitter Blue subscribers could set NFTs minted on Ethereum as profile pictures. These looked like hexagons. Users could click or tap on the profile picture to get more information about the token, including details such as the contact address, a collection of the NFT, the TokenID, and the app used to mint it.

The platform removed the NFT profile picture description from its Premium support page. Earlier, the description read:

As a Premium subscriber, you can create a customized profile and show off the NFTs you own in a hex-shaped profile picture on your account. After a temporary connection to your crypto wallet that allows you to set up an NFT as your profile picture, your digital asset displays in a special hexagon shape that identifies you as the owner of that NFT.

X might remove the hexagonal avatars that remain for users who had an NFT set as a profile picture. It’s not known how they will proceed.

Decline in NFT popularity

It’s not surprising that X removed the feature considering that other social media are also demonstrating a waning interest in NFTs. In 2022, Facebook and Instagram both began experimenting with displaying and posting NFTs, but Facebook stopped supporting the tokens in March last year.

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and other highly popular tokens lost a lot of value, but the NFT market is starting to recover. According to data cited by TechCrunch, NFT trading volumes have exceeded $1.6 billion in the last few months.

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