Social media customers are swirling round rumors that Twitter is introducing its personal native asset known as “Twitter Coin” for use for funds and tipping on the platform.
Some are citing the preliminary reviews from sources resembling Nima Owji, who runs an app-focused info leak account on Twitter.
On Dec. 4, he posted a screenshot of what seems to be a prototype Twitter interface exhibiting a “Cash” possibility for tipping, together with a vector picture exhibiting a coin bearing Twitter’s brand.
#Twitter is engaged on Cash! pic.twitter.com/67upjUn37D
— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) December 3, 2022
Others have pointed to tweets from tech researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who claimed to have extracted code from a particular model of Twitter’s net app to search out the identical info as Owji, although the put up itself and Wong’s account have since been deleted for unknown causes.
Jane Manchun Wong’s deleted menace: Twitter
There has additionally been a swarm of posts beneath the TwitterCoin hashtag, with many individuals excited however finally unsurprised that the social media platform might be engaged on new fee rails and system integrations now that Elon Musk is on the helm.
New buzz circulating a few “Twitter Coin” and it has been trending. Little question, twitter is tough at work in integrating a fee system of each fiat & crypto, and little doubt, for crypto, #TwitterPiPayment is probably the most viable possibility. Nothing higher than Pi on the market. Time will inform. pic.twitter.com/kTs3lS4Tk2
— Woody Lightyear π (@WoodyLightyearx) December 5, 2022
Members of the feverent Dogecoin group on Twitter and Reddit have additionally tried connecting the dots, with some remaining hopeful that Twitter Coin is only a placeholder title for Dogecoin, contemplating Musk’s long-running affiliation with the memecoin.
#TwitterCoin is a code for not saying #dogecoin. pic.twitter.com/Flr3Pk4wzM
— Pythadoge (@pythadoge) December 5, 2022
Talking on the same topic in a Dec. 4 Twitter Areas, Musk urged to an viewers of two.1 million listeners that he was nonetheless enthusiastic about integrating crypto with the social media platform.
“It’s sort of a no brainer for Twitter to have funds, each fiat and crypto,” he mentioned.
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Because it stands, Twitter has been steadily increasing its fee integrations over the previous couple of years, and at present helps fiat tipping for a bunch methodology alongside Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), which have been built-in in September 2021.
For the reason that $44 billion takeover went by way of in October, Musk has overseen a bunch of adjustments to Twitter, significantly relating censorship coverage, info disclosures and botting exercise.
