Twitter recently released a new feature that lets its users create GIFs using its in-app camera, per the popular social media app's announcement.
The new feature should be available to iOS users on March 23. However, the company has yet to announce when its new feature will come to Android devices.
Twitter In-App GIF Creation Details
Twitter's announcement mentioned that the process of creating a GIF is easy. Users would have to open the app on their iOS device and tap the new tweet button to create a tweet. After that, tap on the photo icon and then the camera icon to go to Twitter's in-app camera. At this point, swipe towards the left side of the screen until you see the newly added GIF mode. Finally, press and hold the record button to create your GIF.
The resulting GIF loops like Instagram's Boomerangs, according to The Verge. However, you can have GIF you created start over from the beginning if you prefer it to start that way.
The GIF you created will be saved automatically to your camera roll as a GIF in your images folder for future reference or backup if you need it.
Twitter GIF Creation Feature Availability on Android
As previously discussed, the feature is only available for iOS users. However, Twitter spokesperson Stephanie Cortez said that Twitter would gather feedback from iOS users to inform future updates for Android devices, per Engadget.
Needless to say, Cortez was unable to give a definite date on when the new feature would drop for Android devices.
Android users weren't happy about Twitter leaving them out, with some of them leaving their disappointment on the comments section of the company's announcement.
One user with the Twitter handle, @The CheapMonks, made his disappointment known by sending a picture of a kid wearing a SpongeBob shirt whose face was filled with disappointment.
Other New Twitter Features
The social media company has lately been a busy bee, with it teasing users with two new features within the last month.
The first of these teased features is the ability to write 'full articles." According to a previous iTechPost article, the feature in question, called "Articles," would soon allow users to create posts beyond the current 280-character limit.
Twitter user and app researcher Jane Wong first discovered the new feature, which she posted on Twitter soon after. The "articles" feature was found in a "hidden menu" on Twitter's website, which was labeled as "Twitter Articles."
Another Twitter feature that the company teased in mid- February is the ability for users to untag themselves from a thread on the social media platform, per a separate iTechPost article. It also blocks notifications about the thread the user left, but other users would know if someone left a thread as the Twitter handle of the user who did will appear as plain text instead of being hyperlinked to their profile.
Additionally, the feature was previously leaked in June 2021 by Dominic Camozzi. At that time, the teased feature was known as "unmention yourself."
