Twitter Expanding Tweet Tiles Trial Into NFTs

The social media behemoth Twitter is extending the Tweet Tiles trial to non-fungible tokens. Tweet Tiles were previously tested with prominent media publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian (NFTs). For the capability that enables tweets to display an interactive, customisable widget, a number of NFT markets have been chosen.

For the pilot, the marketplaces on OpenSea, Rarible, Magic Eden, Dapper Labs, and GuardianLink's Jump.trade have been chosen. The featured partners will thus be able to show vibrant NFTs inside tweets for the first time. GuardianLink, a developer of blockchain and NFT solutions, said in a statement that the format enables a larger image of the NFT to be presented alongside metadata like the title and originator.

NFT collectors would have a new opportunity to share their digital collectibles if the pilot were to be successful and made available to all Twitter users, the business stated.

According to GuardianLink, Twitter decided to expand the Tweet Tiles test program to NFT marketplaces after introducing NFT avatars for users who connect their web wallet to confirm ownership.

As “the ability to embed NFTs, replete with important information and a direct marketplace link, will promote sales and support discovery of new and trending collections,” Tweet Tiles give developers the opportunity to extend and improve the Twitter user experience. The five NFT markets highlighted are now using the Tweet Tiles trial on iOS and the Web, according to the company.

Notably, the social media platform allowed some of its users to post verified NFTs as their profile photographs in January of last year. Twitter recently opened an account on the Foundation, an invite-only NFT marketplace powered by ethereum.

Users of the service, which costs USD 2.99 per month, are able to “set an NFT as their profile picture from the Twitter for iOS app,” which means they must use Apple iPhones, though this will mean a special “verified” “hexagon-shaped profile picture” is able to be “seen across all platforms,” according to an official tweet sent from Twitter Blue and a new page on the platform's website.

According to GuardianLink, their crew is based in Singapore, Japan, and India. Jump.trade, an NFT marketplace where collectors can buy and sell digital treasures like MCL cricket NFTs and other sports tokens, is the company's flagship product.