Twitter released their new NFT profile picture system recently (read all about it here), and whilst at first it may seem like a great way to show off your NFTs, and to stop the right-click savers, it does have a potential problem, but it’s a problem they can fix.

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When you go to set a profile picture on Twitter as an NFT, it lets you pick any NFT that you own and have in your collection to do so, and therefore, you are able to put NFTs from both verified and non-verified projects on OpenSea as your profile picture.

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The problems that pops up with allowing people to select any NFT they own to use as a profile picture is that anyone could take any NFT they like the look of, mint it, and then use it as their profile picture, as they’re allowed to use any piece from their collection.

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For example, someone could take a photo of a Bored Ape from BAYC, and then mint that piece, and use it as their profile picture, which then would come across to people, considering it has Twitter’s hexagon outline, that the person is a legitimate BAYC holder.

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Obviously you can click onto the person’s profile picture and quickly find out if the NFT is real and explore the full details of it, but that means you’d have to do so for pretty much every piece you come across if you want to check the legitimacy of ownership.

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This creates a problem, of which isn’t a huge one as it can be checked, but definitely a problem and one that could be on the way unless it’s fixed, of people taking projects artworks, minting it themselves, and using it to act like they have a piece they really don’t.

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A solution is possible to this problem though, and that involves Twitter making it so you can only use NFTs from verified projects. This of course would limit usage across some NFTs which aren’t verified yet, but it’d be the only solution to stop this potential issue.

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Again, this wouldn’t be a huge issue as you can quickly check the legitimacy of an NFT by clicking onto it, but it could create a new wave of tricks for the platform surrounding ownership of NFTs, and when it has a solution, we think it’d be a good shout from Twitter.

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