# Twitter stickers will let you show your support for a good cause

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/27/twitter-stickers-will-let-show-support-good-cause/
- Published: 2016-06-27T16:36:17+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Twitter is beginning to introduce a new facility to let users post cartoon-like
stickers to photos they share via the tool. From the beginning the choice of stickers
will include charity and nonprofit symbols to enable users to show their support
for a good cause.**

 

Twitter’s new stickers function will give uses another option with which to enhance
the visual impact of the photos they share, in addition to animated GIFs and emojis.

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Stickers let you know a little more, not least because photos posted with stickers
on them become “searchable in a new, visual spin on the hashtag”. If you tap on 
a sticker in a Tweet you will discover a new timeline listing photos posted by others
using the same sticker.

 

You don’t have to use just one sticker – you could use several. They can be cropped,
resized and rotated.

 

[Twitter’s announcement of stickers](https://blog.twitter.com/2016/introducing-stickers-on-twitter)
refers to “rotating sets of stickers” so there is a possibility that not all nonprofit
or good cause stickers will be available at all times. There is also a strong likelihood
that the good cause stickers will focus on major, well-known charities, as the company’s
announcement referred to a “library of hundreds of accessories, emoji, and props
to make your photos more fun”.

 

 

 

https://twitter.com/twitter/status/747429521440202752

 

 

 

Stickers should also be accessible, following Twitter’s move to enable users to 
post an alternative text description to photos. This too could help charities or
individual supporters make more of a charity-related sticker.

 

Of course, stickers themselves don’t have a direct fundraising link. But they could
prove another useful tool in linking campaign messages and actions together like
hashtags.

 

At launch Twitter did not mention any names of good causes who will benefit from
a sticker. Nor was there any mention of geo-specific stickers that would function
like Snapchat’s geofilters.

 

## Coming soon

 

Twitter announced:

 

> “The ability to add stickers to your photos will be rolling out over the next 
> few weeks for people using Twitter for iOS and Android. You will also be able 
> to view and click stickers on Twitter.com”.

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