In case anyone doubted Twitter's commitment to photo-sharing — or to becoming more like Facebook — the company added a couple of features Wednesday that made its direction clear.

You can now add four photos to a single tweet and for the first time, you can tag up to 10 friends in a Twitter photo, without taking away from your 140-character count.

The photos you add will appear as a four-part collage in your timeline. If anyone clicks on one of them, they'll get the full picture. In Tweetdeck, however, the pictures appear to simply follow one after the other.

This is a little test using some @AgentsofSHIELD pictures of the new Twiiter collage feature pic.twitter.com/768DA5PYkt

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) March 26, 2014

 

For now, the multiple photos can only be uploaded via iPhone, but Twitter said in a blog post that Android and Twitter.com functionality will follow shortly.

The friend tagging feature, now available to everyone, works pretty much as it does on Facebook. You tag your Twitter friends in the picture, then the friend gets a notification. He can delete or amend the tag.

Twitter will let you control who can tag you in a photo, but the default is that anyone can. That could lead to a lot of awkward and erroneous photo-tagging of celebrities. We've reached out to Twitter for more information on that.

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