Twitter Now Supports GIFs

Twitter gave its users a GIFt on Wednesday.

The company announced that GIFs, the animated images on continuous loop, can now be shared and viewed on Twitter's iPhone, Android and web versions

GIFs will now appear in your timeline with a play button, like other video content. You can upload GIFs through the gallery button under the text box in the same way you upload a photo

Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs on https://t.co/wJD8Fp317i, Android and iPhonehttps://t.co/XBrAbOm4Ya

— Twitter Support (@Support) June 18, 2014

Twitter users can't share video on Twitter unless it's shared through Vine, so GIFs are the first video-type content available to regular users (non-advertisers). Users could previously share GIFs to the service through Twitpic, but the new GIF support feature seems to have eliminated Twitpic's full functionality with Twitter.com Read more...