The social media network Twitter allows now its users to upload higher-quality GIFs on its web platform.
These days, the animated GIFs are present everywhere on the internet. One of the top social media networks, Twitter, provides support for animated GIFs as well. The micro-blogging service allows users to share and view animated GIFs on iPhone, Android and Twitter.com.
In the documentation published on company's support page, Twitter has announced now that it extends support to animated GIFs up to 15 MB. The change affects only the web platform and it is still unknown when Twitter will lift the 5 MB limit for GIFs posted on mobile apps.
Venture Beat reports that while users can now only upload larger GIFs through Twitter.com, it is highly likely that the feature will also become available on Twitter mobile apps as well. The speed of implementation will need to take into consideration how this feature would impact users' data plans on mobile devices and it is likely to depend on how well the company's infrastructure can handle the 15 MB GIFs.
GIF support was added by Twitter back in 2014. Thanks to a partnership with Fiffsy and Giphy, in February Twitter has introduced a GIF button on its apps. Users can tap the GIF button when they are composing a direct message or tweet in order to browse categories of different reactions such as Mic Drop, Dance, Happy and YOLO, or search the GIF library by keyword. Instead of forcing the user to a website to view the image, the actual image appears in-tweet.
According to PCMag, in other Twitter news, hackers have recently attacked another high-profile victim. Over the weekend, the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his Twitter account broken into. An attacker going by the name of "OurMine" posted a tweet followed by a Vine video clip on Dorsey's own Twitter account. The tweet stated that the hacker was in fact testing the security of Twitter accounts.
