Twitter’s version of Stories – called ‘Fleets’, for ideas that are ‘fleeting’ – is pretty much the same as Instagram or Snapchat Stories, but without the additional engagement options of playful editing tools and AR effects. But it does provide another connection surface within the platform, and Fleets occupy some prime in-app real estate, up at the top of the timeline.
As such, it may well be worth experimenting with – and this week, Twitter’s taken the first steps towards expanding your Fleet options after introducing new and enhanced versions of Stickers and Gifs.
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As you can see here, the new stickers tray, which you can access by tapping on the smiley face icon in the Fleets composer, provides a search option to help users locate the right sticker for their image or video post, while the Twemoji stickers will help convey a mood when added to your Fleet frame.
Of course, you can kind of replicate these Twemoji reactions already by using the emoji buttons in the text tool. The stickers, however, add a more organic and layered variation, which you can also move around and place more freely.
Twitter might roll out its audio-based chatroom Twitter Spaces to all users this month. It is currently available to select Android users. The feature is essentially built to rival Clubhouse – a similar voice-based chat platform. Spaces will come directly integrated into the Twitter app. The micro-blogging site is yet to share its exact availability details.
