Elon Musk Criticizes Twitter — Gets Blasted for Using Tesla to Promote Crypto, Dogecoin – Featured Bitcoin News

Elon Musk, Spacex CEO and Tesla CEO has criticised Twitter’s use of its engineering resources for a profile picture service. “Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread,” Musk said.

Elon Musk Criticizes Twitter’s Use Of Engineering Resources

Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticised Twitter on Friday over its non-fungible token NFT profile picture service. “This is annoying,” Musk wrote. “Twitter is spending engineering resources on this bs while crypto scammers are throwing a spambot block party in every thread!?”

Twitter has launched NFT profile pictures Thursday. This allows users to make an NFT for their profile picture. NFT profiles are presented in a hexagonal shape. “Right now Twitter only supports static image NFTs (JPEG, PNG) minted on the Ethereum blockchain,” the company clarified.

Musk’s tweet received many comments. Many people agreed with Musk’s tweet, stating that Twitter must use its resources more efficiently and emphasizing the need for crackdown on scammers and bots using the platform.

Adam Singer, an ex-Google marketing manager, agreed with Musk on Twitter:

This is exactly what Elon says. Twitter’s product team needs better prioritization on what’s actually important for user experience.

He added, “Incidentally, every Elon Tweet comment section is an easy honeypot they could use to nuke a non-trivial amount of spammers/grifters (yet they do nothing).”

However, some counter-attacked Musk for using Tesla’s engineering resources on cryptocurrency, particularly by accepting the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin (DOGE).

“Some people feel the same way about cryptocurrency,” one told Musk. Another wrote, “Tesla is wasting resources in crypto BS too.” A third commented, “Is Tesla promoting Doge isn’t annoying?” A fourth pointed out:

Elon [is] getting absolutely donked on for criticizing Twitter spending resources on NFT integration while doing the exact same thing with his company & DOGE.

Musk’s electric car company accepted bitcoin early last year but stopped due to environmental concerns. On Jan. 14, the company started accepting bitcoin payments for certain merchandise.

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Kevin Helms

Kevin is a graduate of Austrian Economics. He discovered Bitcoin in 2011, and has been an advocate ever since. His main interests are in Bitcoin security, open source systems, network effects, cryptography, and intersections between economics, cryptography, and Cryptography.