As you’ll be able to see on this picture, posted by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Twitter’s testing out a brand new Bitmoji integration inside the profile picture add circulation, with an ‘Add Bitmoji’ button to attach your Bitmoji account.

Which, in fact, would additionally hyperlink your Twitter profile to Snapchat, which owns Bitmoji. Primarily, this integration would supply a direct hyperlink between your Snapchat profile, the place you create your Bitmoji character, and Twitter, which could be the first time that the 2 platforms have partnered on a direct integration of this sort.

That’s fascinating by way of competitors, given the 2 platforms function in a aggressive area. However on the identical time, Twitter doesn’t have its personal native avatar creation instruments, as but, and the mixing with Bitmoji seemingly means that it’s not wanting so as to add such, as an alternative leaning on Snap’s character creation instruments to allow one other technique of expression together with your Twitter presence.

Snapchat’s been trying to make its Bitmoji characters a much bigger a part of the in-app expertise, even launching a variety of branded Bitmoji clothes choices to offer extra methods for customers to specific their id within the app.

The expanded view is that customers will come to depend on these digital caricatures as one other technique of expression. And as we transfer in direction of the metaverse future, the place we’ll all be interacting by way of digital puppets, possibly that can then endear customers sufficient to their Bitmoji characters to undertake them as their main digital avatars for use throughout these new, immersive areas.

Which is why increasing them to Twitter as nicely makes quite a lot of sense, in enhancing that connection and affiliation with the depiction.

We requested Twitter in regards to the experiment, and it offered us with this assertion:

“We’re at all times exploring new methods for folks to specific themselves on the platform. We don’t have additional particulars to share right now.”

So nothing to go on but, however it’s an space that Twitter’s exploring – and in a world the place Twitter customers are more and more utilizing random photos of monkeys, goblins, and different cartoon characters as their profile photos within the app, a Bitmoji integration appears to make quite a lot of sense.

It may very well be one other stepping stone to the metaverse, and a future the place we work together in completely new methods.

We’ll maintain you up to date on any progress.