I hear Twitter has added stickers to the photos we post. Very cool. How do I add ’em to my photos when I tweet them?
It’s the perfect antidote for dull, boring photos that people often (too often?) post on Twitter: add little overlay graphic “stickers” and they suddenly become more fun, engaging and lively. Of course, you can also go wayyyy overboard with the stickers and add so many that you completely obscure the original image, but sometimes that’s a good thing (not looking at any of my friends here, I swear!)
However you use them, adding stickers is a bit late on Twitter’s part, but it’s still fun, and they’re easy to work with, though you have to actually upload photos and post them from within the Twitter app to use stickers, you can’t add them to an image when you retweet it or similar.
But that’s okay. Let’s post a photo to Twitter and see what we can do with Twitter Stickers to make it more lively!
To start, move to the spot in the Twitter app where you’re entering a new tweet:
From this point, choose the photo you want to post. I’ll use that photo of the orange Toyota Tacoma. A single tap and it’s loaded into the iOS Twitter app:
Now the fun begins. See the smiley face icon on the lower right, superimposed over the image? That’s the Twitter Stickers button!
Tap on the smiley face and stickers show up!
You can see the featured ones on the first screen, but a close look at the bottom shows that there are also a ton of additional stickers (icons? emoji? emoticons?) from which you can choose.
For simplicity, I’ll stick to the featured stickers and choose the celebratory red horn.
A tap on the desired sticker and it shows up on your photo:
Now you can tap and drag to move the sticker where you want, and use two fingers to tap and expand or tap and squish to change the size of the sticker.
You can reorient it slightly with a two finger tap and spin gesture too, if you’re trying to get it to line up perfectly on your image.
And you can add more stickers, of course. Lots more.
Finally, ready to post? Tap on “Done” and it’ll let you enter the actual Twitter message, as usual:
A few words tapped in, a few accounts referenced with the “@” notation, and a tap on “Tweet” posts it!
Here’s the result, this time viewing it in my computer’s Web browser:
Couldn’t ask for a more cheery addition to the photo of a truck, can you? Great fun, and well worth playing with, even if just for that occasional funny candid shot. Nice job, Twitter!
I wonder if you can help me with something Twitter-sticker-related. Yesterday I used Twitter stickers for the first time, and the sticker is now “stuck” on my original photo! I don’t know how this happened, because as far as I know, it’s not supposed to do that. Or is it? Do Twitter stickers ruin your original photos? Is there a way to remove the sticker from my original photo? I have an iPhone, and was accessing Twitter via the Twitter app.
Are you sure that you don’t now have two versions of the photo in your photo gallery, one with the sticker, one without it?