Elon Musk criticized Twitter for supporting NFTs – Bits Media

Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes, that Twitter is just “wasting” developer resources to introduce NFT support, whereas the platform has more important problems.

Recently, the developers of the social network Twitter began testing using NFTs for user avatars. But according to Elon Musk (Elon Musk), Twitter management pays attention to far from the most important functions. He stressed, that under every message about cryptocurrencies there are scammers, attracting gullible investors, and it would be better to spend development resources on this problem.

“Twitter is wasting engineering resources on this nonsense., while crypto scam bots appear in every conversation!», – Musk wrote.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor (Michael Saylor) replied to Musk's message. He considers, that user verification can help against fraudulent bots, using Bitcoin transactions via the Lightning Network.

Recall, that now the ability to set NFT images as an avatar is available to users of the Twitter app on Apple devices. An active Twitter Blue subscription is also required to access the feature..

Previously, Tesla added the ability to purchase various goods with the company's symbols for the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.