Social media users are swirling around rumors that Twitter is looking at introducing its own native asset called “Twitter Coin” to be used for payments and tipping on the platform.
Others have pointed to tweets from tech researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who claimed to have extracted code from a specific version of Twitter’s web app to find the same information as Owji, though the post itself and Wong's account have since been deleted for unknown reasons.
Jane Manchun Wong's deleted threat: Twitter There has also been a swarm of posts under the TwitterCoin hashtag, with many people excited but ultimately unsurprised that the social media platform could be working on new payment rails and system integrations now that Elon Musk is at the helm.
New buzz circulating about a "Twitter Coin" and it has been trending.
“It is kind of a no-brainer for Twitter to have payments, both fiat and crypto,” he said.
Since the $44 billion takeover went through in October, Musk has overseen a host of changes to Twitter, particularly relating censorship policy, information disclosures and botting activity.
Source: Cointelegraph