If it's on Facebook, you can be pretty sure it will end up on other social media sites in one form or another. That's true of Instagram, which recently launched Facebook-like notifications for its web interface, and now it's true of Twitter, which is reportedly testing the ability to add stickers to photos, something Facebook rolled out a year ago.
So far, the sticker feature is very experimental: Twitter only rolled it out to a few user accounts for testing, Re/code reports. One of those users tweeted screenshots of Twitter's request for feedback on the new feature, called "Stickers."
It allows you to "edit the photo so you can add images to it," according to the screenshot. In addition, Twitter says it will "suggest photos that you can edit and post to participate in trending conversations and breaking news." Tapping on an image will show multiple versions of it that others have edited.
So it sounds like Stickers is a way for Twitter to encourage users to post photos more often. Tweets with photos and videos are more often retweeted and see higher engagement levels than plain-text tweets.
It's worth noting that Twitter already has a similar stickers feature for celebrities, which more closely resembles Facebook stickers. A scan of celebrities' accounts revealed that Miley Cyrus is a frequent user of this feature.
In an email to PCMag, a Twitter spokesperson refused to comment on whether or not stickers would be rolled out to more users in the future, saying only that "we're always researching potential new ways to make Twitter more expressive."