I'll be the first one to admit that I'm not the biggest Twitter gal. I use it in a mostly voyeuristic way, ingesting all the major headlines and comedians' goofs and celebrities' thoughts, and then ...

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GIFs may be a holdover from the earliest days of the internet, but the ability to easily share little silent, looping, satisfying clips looks to be with us for the long haul. And with Twitter’s ...

Twitter has toady announced long-awaited support for native GIF search with partners Giphy and Riffsy. The addition of GIF search means that users will now be able to search for GIFs from a library of ...

It's finally happened. Twitter may have banned animated profile pictures, but the company has just unleashed animated GIFs in tweets. Posting a tweet with a GIF is as straightforward as posting a ...

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a lot of things: Composer, actor, West Wing fan, almost-EGOT, and prolific Twitter user. That fact made it all the more endearing when the Broadway star and his favourite website ...

This week, a group of Android users noticed a new feature in the Twitter app: a GIF button that can be used to search through trending GIFs to drop into status updates. As you'd expect, the internet ...

SAN FRANCISCO — GIF fans rejoice: Twitter is adding a button on iOS, Android and the Web so you can search for GIFs by keyword and insert them into tweets and direct messages with a single tap. GIFs ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. GIFs have ...

Whether you pronounce it gif or jif -- the ever-popular GIF is finally available on Twitter. Twitter announced on Wednesday that it now supports graphic interchange format, or GIF, files, so users can ...

Twitter GIF are VIFs. They’re regular MP4 files that basically play in a loop. Why does Twitter convert your GIFs to MP4? Turns out it’s all about size and control. Sean Creeley of Embedly has a great ...