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Twitter introduces Stickers, Add fun to your photo

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.

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Twitter announced a feature Monday that will let users add stickers to their photos.

Twitter’s version of stickers feels more like a page from Snapchat Inc.’s playbook, even though it only recently added the feature in March 2016.

You can browse rotating sets of stickers to join in on real-time conversations. When it comes to Twitter’s website, you’ll be able to view and click on the stickers. After it’s been tweeted, you can search based on the stickers added. First, it’ll decorate your photo – don’t want to go around posting photos without decorations if you want to be noticed by other people who decide stickers are important. It’s pretty simple. You have a slew of stickers that you can place on top of your pictures that you share in your Tweets. According to Twitter chief marketing officer Leslie Berland, millions of tweets with photos are sent daily and the inclusion of what’s being called “visual hashtags” will usher in a new search capability – what hashtags did for tweets, stickers will now do for photos.

Each Sticker you stick will serve several purposes.

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Twitter says #Stickers will begin rolling out to users today and will take about two to three weeks to reach all of its iOS and Android users. Twitter is one of the last to actually add the feature.

Twitter has added searchable stickers that can be embedded into