Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, just isn’t happy with Twitter’s new non-fungible token (NFT) integration. Musk lambasted Twitter in a Friday morning tweet for devoting technical assets to NFT integration whereas failing to do extra to fight spam on the social media platform.
Musk’s tweet criticizing crypto fraudsters was accompanied by tweets providing pretend giveaways,
“This irritates me,” he wrote. “Whereas crypto fraudsters have a spambot block social gathering on each publish, Twitter spends technical assets on this nonsense!”
That is annoying pic.twitter.com/KAkDl29CTX
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022
NFT profile photographs (PFPs) have currently been obtainable to Twitter customers. Avatars with hexagonal shapes that present NFT graphics might already be seen on particular person accounts. In response to Twitter, the pictures are actually a part of a verified assortment on NFT market OpenSea.
Elon Musk’s Stand Level On Integration
Musk’s criticism of Twitter’s NFT initiative is probably going since fraud accounts typically imitate Musk and different well-known personalities to advertise cryptocurrency giveaway schemes. One such Musk impostor efficiently stole $2 million from unknowing victims in 2020.
Twitter is spending engineering assets on this bs whereas crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block social gathering in each thread!?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2022
Scammers posing as MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor lately stole greater than $1 million in bitcoin from a single individual. This drawback isn’t restricted to Twitter; fraudsters use equivalent methods on authorities web sites and numerous different social media platforms, together with YouTube. NFT integration on Twitter is presently solely accessible to customers of Twitter Blue, the social media firm’s premium service.
