According to a report out from Re/Code on Tuesday, the company is now testing out a product called, of course, Stickers, which would allow users to put additional images onto their photos before they Tweet them. Additionally, there will be one more feature to suggest other edits that have been made to the same photo, thus encouraging users to participate in furthering a meme.
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It is still unclear where Twitter is getting these images from and how the company will determine whether or not to suggest certain stickers with you, but perhaps it will have an algorithm similar to Facebook, which offers advertisements and content based on what you like.
The idea is, of course, that it could encourage people to tweet more photos and, in response, receive more likes, retweets and replies from other users. Twitter wants to know! This feature, however, could never actually make it into users hands. Plus tweets with images tend to get more retweets and engagement.
Facebook lets you add stickers to photos.
“We’re always researching potential new ways to make Twitter more expressive”, a spokesperson told Re/code.
Its initiatives have included an update to its timeline, which gave users an opt-in way to change their timeline to display those that they are “most likely to care about”, rather than just the most recent.
Twitter stickers are the next big thing that Twitter has in mind. In order to have a large number of users on board to complete with Facebook, Twitter is trying it’s best to introduce a lot of new changes in order to have more people on board. Now they are conducting surveys to find out if stickers I really expected by people on Twitter. On Snapchat you can add emojis to photos and videos that look a lot like stickers.
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Now being referred to as Stickers (sound familiar?) – although names including Stamptags, Taptags or Stickits are also in the running – the tool is undergoing testing with a select group of tweeters.
