Some black profile pictures are a remnant of a 2018 campaign that was meant to raise awareness about domestic violence. The campaign started in 2018 and was meant to offer a glimpse at what the ...

Automated social media profiles are a powerful tool for spreading propaganda. They often feature AI-generated profile pictures. Researchers are currently looking into ways of identifying such images.

At that time, the company allowed Twitter Blue subscribers to set NFTs minted on Ethereum (ERC-721 or ERC-1155 tokens) as profile pictures, which eventually showed up as hexagons.

NFT profile pictures, which were rolled out for Twitter Blue subscribers in January 2022, coincided with a market peak for the crypto products in early 2022. At the time, transaction volume for ...