We’ve been ready endlessly to get an “Edit” button, however Twitter utilized a brand new function that’s simply nearly as good. On Tuesday, it gave iOS customers the flexibility to report GIFs straight from the in-app digicam.
Recording GIFs immediately on Twitter saves minutes of your time attempting to transform an extended prerecorded video out of your telephone’s album on different GIF platforms like GIPHY. You merely press new tweet, faucet the digicam icon, set it into GIF mode if it’s not there already, and press and maintain the report button. Then you’ll be able to set the GIF to play in a loop much like Instagram’s Boomerang, or have it play from the start.
For the aim of this story, I set the GIF I created in loop mode and tweeted it out as an indication. It’s a recreation of the well-known pondering GIF from a number of years in the past (properly, type of).
GIF demo. pic.twitter.com/39xe1POMNX
— Cristina Alexander stands with Ukraine 🦔👑🇺🇦 (@SonicPrincess15) March 22, 2022
After tinkering round with the GIF function, we found that it may well’t report any longer than two seconds, which is how lengthy a GIF lasts on common. There’s additionally no strategy to save the GIF to your telephone or your pc as a way to share it exterior Twitter. The one choice you get is to repeat the GIF tackle while you right-click on the tweet.
The GIF improve comes over every week after Twitter rolled again the tabbed timeline, which gave customers the choice to change between the algorithmically generated Residence tab and the Newest tab that enables customers to see their tweets in chronological order. The platform walked again on the replace as a result of customers complained they’d be compelled again to the Residence tab each time they opened up the app and see tweets out of order, which was complicated for some individuals who wanted to see rapid updates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It’s presently unknown if the GIF recording function can be obtainable for Android customers. We’ve reached out to Twitter for touch upon whether or not it would develop the replace to the Android model of its app and can replace this story after we hear again.
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