Elon Musk criticizes Twitter – being blown up for using Tesla to market crypto, Dogecoin – Featured Bitcoin News
Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk have criticized Twitter for using its technical resources to offer a non-fungible token (NFT) profile picture service. “Twitter uses engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers throw a spambot block party in every thread,” Musk said.
Elon Musk criticizes how Twitter uses technical resources
Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized Twitter on Friday regarding the new non-fungible token (NFT) profile picture service. “This is annoying,”[ads1]; Musk wrote. “Twitter uses technical resources on this bs while crypto scammers throw a spambot blocking party in every thread !?”
Twitter launched the NFT profile picture service on Thursday to allow users to set up an NFT as a profile picture. NFT profile pictures are displayed with a special hexagonal shape. “Right now, Twitter only supports static NFT (JPEG, PNG) images embedded in the Ethereum blockchain,” the company clarified.
Musk’s tweet received many comments. Some agreed with the Tesla boss that Twitter should make better use of its resources, and stressed the need to crack down on crypto scammers and spam bots on the platform.
Adam Singer, a former Google marketing manager, agreed with Musk and tweeted:
Elon is right about this. Twitter’s product team needs better prioritization on what is actually important to the user experience.
He added, “By the way, every Elon Tweet comment section is a simple honey pot they can use to nuclear fight a non-trivial amount of spammers / grifters (but they do nothing).”
Some counterattack, however, Musk to use Tesla’s technical resources on cryptocurrency, especially by accepting meme cryptocurrency dogecoin (DOGE).
“Some people feel the same way about cryptocurrency,” one told Musk. Another wrote: “Tesla also wastes resources in crypto-BS.” A third commented: “Isn’t Tesla promoting Doge annoying?” A fourth pointed out:
Elon [is] is absolutely dumbfounded for criticizing Twitter for using resources on NFT integration while doing the exact same thing with the company and DOGE.
Musk’s electric car company accepted bitcoin early last year, but stopped due to environmental concerns. The company began accepting dogecoin payments on January 14 for some items.
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