CERTAIN Twitter users can gain access to a new NFT profile picture feature.
It means you can display a profile picture that no-one else is allowed to use.
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It’s a feature that Elon Musk has blasted as “annoying”.
Musk tweeted a screenshot of the Twitter announcement and wrote: “This is annoying.”
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are becoming increasingly popular.
Bitcoin has helped create a new world of digital currencies and now attention is turning to the new trend of NFTs.
Cryptocurrencies are really collections of computer code but coins such as Bitcoin or Dogecoin have recognisable logos.
An NFT provides something different as it digitises a piece of work such as art or music and turns it into a non-fungible token that is stored on the blockchain.
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That means it cannot be replicated and is unique to whoever owns it.
If you’re a Twitter Blue subscriber, you should be able to access the new NFT profile picture feature.
This feature is only available for iOS at the moment but should roll out to Android and desktop soon.
Any one wanting to use the feature would have to own an NFT and connect their crypto wallet to their Twitter account.
The profile picture would then be displayed in a special hexagon shape and information about the digital artwork can be displayed to anyone who clicks on it.
The price of an NFT can range from a few hundred to millions of dollars so they’re not exactly something that everyone has access to.
Twitter’s paid subscription service also isn’t widely available.
You can access Twitter Blue in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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