I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet

Posted by razokulover on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:28AM
from the self-post dept.

I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet (ropsten). https://twitter-eth.vercel.app/ All tweets are automatically minted as NFTs. What I learned from building this is that it costs so much gas that it's useless. It costs $10 just to tweet, like, or RT. Deploying it costs over $100. Is this normal in Web 3.0?

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Re:I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet by dbavaria on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:45AM (#29602322)

I'm not super familiar with the concepts here, but can one NFT represent multiple tweets? I thought I read something about Coinbase introducing transaction bundling to reduce "network fees" on the blockchain. Could that be applied here, regular user tweets could be bundled into NFTs, while premium/verified users could pay to have each tweet minted as it's own NFT?

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Re:I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet by ssss11 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:36AM (#29601983)

Wow nice little project.

Try using polygon (layer2) or a cheaper blockchain like Solana or Fantom

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Re:I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet by razokulover on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:56AM (#29602096)

I found that polygon is compatible with Ethereum's dapp. It seems to be easy to support. I'll give it a try.

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Re:I've created a Twitter clone on-chain to Ethereum's testnet by ssss11 on Saturday December 18, 2021 @01:00AM (#29602113)

Yeah the fees should be way lower… let me know how it turns out for an app like this I’d be interested in knowing!

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