Ever go to post an image to Twitter and think, "gosh, I wish I could add a little cat graphic to this photo?"
No? Well, now you can anyway.
Twitter has completed the rollout of the new sticker feature it first introduced last month. This means all iOS and Android users can now jazz up their photos with little graphic lightning bolts, snowmen, cactus, watermelon, smiley faces, sunglasses, and tons of other fun stickers.
Twitter is, of course, pretty late to the game on this one, as rival social networks Snapchat and Facebook have had stickers for a while now. Some users are less than thrilled with the new addition, pointing out that Twitter should have first made good on another recent promise — to stop counting photos towards the 140-chracter limit (a change that's still not widely available). Another user said Twitter should focus its efforts on more important changes: like letting users edit tweets.
We may not have those requested changes just yet, but let's just focus on the positive: we now have stickers.
To check out the feature, just add a photo and tap the smiley-face icon at the bottom of the screen. This will bring up a library of stickers covering categories ranging from animals and food to technology, flags, and weather.
Like hashtags, Twitter stickers aim to make it easy for people to explore a topic of interest or join a global conversation. Any public tweet containing a sticker is searchable; just tap on an emblem to call up a timeline of messages from people around the world using the same stamp.