Twitter introduces #Stickers, giving your timeline a taste of Snapchat

Twitter is introducing #Stickers, a new feature that lets you add tiny drawings or symbols — including silly hats and emoji — to the photos you tweet.

Rolling out on iOS and Android over the next few weeks, there will be hundreds of emoji, accessories and objects to stick on any of your photos. You can resize and rotate them, place them anywhere you like, and use as many as you want.

The stickers aren't just for aesthetics — they also act as visual hashtags.

When you see a sticker on a photo, you can tap it and open up a new feed of photos that include that specific sticker, so you can see how else that sticker is being used in the Twitterverse. You can use a sticker as simple visual flair or to join in on a conversation. Read more...