Dead Technology

X (formerly Twitter) Hexagonal NFT profile pictures

The most recognisable shape of the boom, removed without a word.

Twitter Blue subscribers could connect a wallet and display an Ethereum NFT as a profile picture, rendered as a hexagon instead of a circle. For a while the hexagon was the most visible signal of the whole boom, readable at a glance in any timeline. In January 2024 the feature was withdrawn: hexagons reverted to circles, no new ones could be set, and the support documentation stopped mentioning it. There was no announcement.

Timeline

January 2022 Launched
January 2024 Feature removed with no announcement

Ran for 2 years.

On-chain now

No single contract

This was a platform or marketplace rather than one collection, so there is no canonical address to record. Rather than pick one and imply it stands for the whole thing, the field is left empty.

Sources

3

Every claim above traces to one of these. Where a company or regulator said it themselves, that is marked primary.

X removed support for NFT profile pictures in January 2024 TechCrunch · January 2024
Existing hexagonal avatars reverted to circles and new ones could no longer be set; support documentation removed ARTnews · January 2024
Feature launched January 2022 for Twitter Blue subscribers, supporting ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens on Ethereum Web3 is Going Great · January 2024

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