If your Facebook friends were among the millions of users who created personalised comic strips back in 2013, you may be familiar with Bitstrips.

The app lets users turn themselves into emoji, or avatars, and places them in cartoons with friends.

Now, reports suggest the app has been bought by Snapchat for an unconfirmed fee of $100 million.

Bitstrips lets users turn themselves into emoji, or avatars, and places them in cartoons with friends. Now, reports suggest the app has been bought by Snapchat for an unconfirmed fee of $100 million. The terms of the deal have not been revealed, but a source told Fortune that it was a mixture of cash and stock

The terms of the deal have not been revealed, but a source told Fortune it was a mixture of cash and stock.

Bitstrips is available on iOS, Android and as a Chrome extension.

In 2013, the company launched a Facebook extension that let users create personalised comic strips using their profile pictures, and the pictures of their Facebook friends.

To get started on Bitstrips, users can connect their Facebook account to automatically create an avatar in their likeness from a profile picture.

Alternatively, they can personalise an avatar by choosing a face shape, hairstyle and clothing.

This avatar can then be placed into comic strips, along with friends who also use the app.

Bitstrips is available on iOS, Android and as a Chrome extension. Last year, the app (pictured) added a feature that let users place their avatars on existing images. This is similar to how emoji can be overlaid onto people's 'snaps' on Snapchat, which may explain the acquisition

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Last year, Bitstrips added a feature that let users place their avatars on existing images.

This is similar to how emoji can be overlaid onto people's 'snaps' on Snapchat, which may explain the acquisition.

Twitter is rumoured to be testing a similar feature that adds stickers to photos shared on the site.

A small number of users have been given the option to add stickers to their images before tweeting them, and they can also see which other pictures have been edited by other users.

The news was first reported by tech news site Re/code which was sent details by one of the people testing the feature, known as @XBLFoxes on Twitter.

The feature is also expected to use the standard list of emoji that has become popular online and in messaging apps.

MailOnline has contacted Snapchat for more information.