Twitter users can now customize and show off a hexagon shaped profile picture! Yes, Twitter is adding Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for the same. Twitter profile picture as an NFT is currently available to iPhone users and that too for Twitter Blue subscribers. Informing about the same, Twitter Blue tweeted, "gm! You asked (a lot), so we made it. Now rolling out in Labs: NFT Profile Pictures on iOS."
As per the information provided by Twitter, setting up an NFT profile picture on an iPhone means people can associate their Twitter account with their connected wallet’s public crypto wallet address. This means your Twitter account will be associated with your current and historical crypto wallet transactions and holdings, including all other NFTs in that wallet, because this information is all available on the public blockchain.
Here is all you need to know about Twitter NFT Profile Picture:
NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens are unique digital items, such as artwork, with proof of ownership that’s stored on a blockchain (a digital database that’s publicly accessible).
NFT profile pictures are a way to show off the NFTs you own on Twitter. 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. It can be noted that right now Twitter only supports static image NFTs (JPEG, PNG) minted on the Ethereum blockchain (for example ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens), according to Twitter.
To set up an NFT Profile Picture, you must control the address that holds the NFT you would like to select as your profile picture. When you connect your supported crypto wallet to Twitter, Twitter will generate a
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