How to Use Twitter Stickers

Always idea "I bet my tweets would be better if I could add together cute stickers of smileys or animals?" Well, Twitter's made your wish a reality, adding decorative stickers as a new image editing option to its official iOS and Android apps (both free). The addition was announced yesterday (June 27) and made available equally a background update that doesn't require you lot to download a new version of the app.

Twitter'south stickers are flat-looking designs that look like to Google's emojis, and the service too offers accessory stickers such as headphones, devil horns, crowns and tiaras and so you lot can spruce up your selfies. While you tin but add stickers from the iOS and Android apps, Twitter fabricated its stickers searchable, and then desktop and mobile users can click or tap on stickers to run into other tweets that utilise the aforementioned stickers.

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Here's how to use Twitter Stickers:

1. Tap the etch button.

2. Tap an epitome or tap Photo to shoot a new one.

3. Tap the smiley button in the lesser right corner. The smiley will be overlaid on top of the photograph if you're attaching a previously shot image.

4. Select a sticker. Stickers are grouped by pop, recently used, accessories, smileys, animals, nutrient, activities, travel, objects, symbols and flags.

5. Elevate, rotate, pinch and pull your sticker to move, reorient and resize. Echo steps 3, iv and 5 as necessary.

6. Tap Save.

7. Finish composing your post and tap Tweet.

You've tweeted a sticker-decorated photo. To see other tweets that use the same Twitter sticker, click on the image and click on the sticker.

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