NFTs are so dead, even Elon Musk has dropped them: NFT avatars on Twitter are gone
Two years after Twitter introduced hexagonal NFT avatars, they're gone: As reported by TechCrunch and confirmed by numerous users, the social media platform has quietly dropped the feature, and reverted all existing NFT avatars to standard ones.
NFT avatars on Twitter (now officially known as X, but we're not calling it that) debuted in January 2022 as an option for Twitter Blue subscribers, who were given the option of linking their Twitter accounts to their crypto wallets. To distinguish NFT avatars from the functionally identical JPGs the rest of us use, they were also given hexagonal frames. Twitter was one of the only mainstream platforms to adopt NFTs, and its move to integrate them was a moment of validation for those on the internet who were chasing this trend.
The removal of NFT avatar support came without warning: References to it were simply scrubbed from the Twitter Premium support page. Via the Wayback Machine, here's what it said in October 2023:
NFT Profile Pictures: We're adding NFTs as one of several ways to customize your profile so you can 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.
The TechCrunch report said the hexagonal NFT avatar frames were initially still in place after the change, but according to the nftnow Twitter account, they have since been removed.
The response to the change from NFT boosters is about what you'd expect: Surprise, disappointment, confusion, and some faint hope from committed optimists that it merely means Twitter owner Elon Musk has
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