That is fascinating – Twitter is experimenting with a brand new integration that may allow customers to show their Bitmoji character as their Twitter profile picture, offering one other method to make use of your digital avatar as a illustration of your self.

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

Which, after all, would additionally hyperlink your Twitter profile to Snapchat, which owns Bitmoji. Basically, this integration would offer a direct hyperlink between your Snapchat profile, the place you create your Bitmoji character, and Twitter, which stands out as 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 combination with Bitmoji possible 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 along with your Twitter presence.

Snapchat’s been trying to make its Bitmoji characters a greater a part of the in-app expertise, even launching a spread of branded Bitmoji clothes choices to supply 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 through digital puppets, perhaps that may then endear customers sufficient to their Bitmoji characters to undertake them as their major 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 concerning the experiment, and it offered us with this assertion:

“We’re at all times exploring new methods for individuals 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 photographs of monkeys, goblins, and different cartoon characters as their profile photographs within the app, a Bitmoji integration appears to make quite a lot of sense.

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

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