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New iPhone Twitter client from Japan lets you send stickers!

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Readers may recall back in April when we featured the very clever Stamp Messenger, an app that lets users send animated stamps in Facebook messages. Since then, of course, Facebook has added support for its own stickers, although they’re not especially impressive. But the company behind Stamp Messenger, Tokyo-based Pickles Inc., has been busy with something else in the meantime. Now it is bringing Asian sticker fun to Twitter via its new app PicTwick. It’s an iOS Twitter client that, in addition to having a slick design, lets you send sticker images to your friends quickly and easily. Check out our demo video above to see how it works. It’s a media-rich experience, supporting the in-line display of photos and video from 13 different services, including Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Tumblr, Path and more. And for those who like a customized Twitter client, PicTwick includes 11 different colorful skins – although so far I find myself liking the wood finish of the default theme very much. You can also load your own backgrounds from a wide selection, or even load your own background from your camera roll. But it should be noted that viewing these stickers outside the app…

Readers may recall back in April when we featured the very clever Stamp Messenger, an app that lets users send animated stamps in Facebook messages. Since then, of course, Facebook has added support for its own stickers, although they’re not especially impressive.

But the company behind Stamp Messenger, Tokyo-based Pickles Inc., has been busy with something else in the meantime. Now it is bringing Asian sticker fun to Twitter via its new app PicTwick. It’s an iOS Twitter client that, in addition to having a slick design, lets you send sticker images to your friends quickly and easily. Check out our demo video above to see how it works.

It’s a media-rich experience, supporting the in-line display of photos and video from 13 different services, including Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, Vine, Tumblr, Path and more.

And for those who like a customized Twitter client, PicTwick includes 11 different colorful skins – although so far I find myself liking the wood finish of the default theme very much. You can also load your own backgrounds from a wide selection, or even load your own background from your camera roll.

But it should be noted that viewing these stickers outside the app is not as smooth as it is from within PicTwick. Users will see a web link with the sticker, as well as links that encourage you to download the application. (Update: It looks like you can view them on Twitter, but not in direct messages) [1].

It’s still a pretty solid Twitter client though, even if you never send a single sticker. So if you’d like to try out PicTwick for yourself, you can get it for free over on the App Store. (h/t Weekly Ascii)

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  1. I’d also love to see List support, although I expect that wouldn’t be a priority for Pickles.  ↩

A new iPhone app from Japan brings fun stamps to Facebook messaging [Video]

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What is the major difference between Japan’s wildly popular Line chat app and Facebook Messenger? It’s stamps. But not anymore, thanks to a Tokyo-based company called Pickles. The company just released a chat app called Stamp Messenger which brings stamps into your Facebook chat — provided you use their app. Users can simply log into Stamp Messenger using their Facebook credentials, and then send messages and stamps to Facebook friends. Of course, the recipient must also have the app to view the stamps — but if they don’t, they’ll simply see a link to the stamp image (along with a link to the app!) instead of the stamp itself. There are over 88 kinds of free stamps available. And over on the stamp store, there have been some stamps created in collaboration with companies, like the Kanpai stamps that were created with Asahi Beer. Considering that many Facebook users in Japan are working professionals, I’m sure they’ll find these Kanpai stamps convenient as they finish up their work day! This first version of the app seems decent, although we did run into some issues with duplicate messages. But it’s a pretty great idea, one that perhaps Facebook should have tried…

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What is the major difference between Japan’s wildly popular Line chat app and Facebook Messenger? It’s stamps. But not anymore, thanks to a Tokyo-based company called Pickles. The company just released a chat app called Stamp Messenger which brings stamps into your Facebook chat — provided you use their app.

StampMessenger-app-2Users can simply log into Stamp Messenger using their Facebook credentials, and then send messages and stamps to Facebook friends. Of course, the recipient must also have the app to view the stamps — but if they don’t, they’ll simply see a link to the stamp image (along with a link to the app!) instead of the stamp itself.

There are over 88 kinds of free stamps available. And over on the stamp store, there have been some stamps created in collaboration with companies, like the Kanpai stamps that were created with Asahi Beer. Considering that many Facebook users in Japan are working professionals, I’m sure they’ll find these Kanpai stamps convenient as they finish up their work day!

This first version of the app seems decent, although we did run into some issues with duplicate messages. But it’s a pretty great idea, one that perhaps Facebook should have tried itself. Check out our video demo below to get a better idea of how the app works.

Stamp Messenger is currently available on iOS, and will soon be released on Android as well.