How To Upload An Animated Icon To Twitter

Taking the Internets by storm, the GIF offset started back in 1987 with humble ancestry. GIFs were originally created so that an image file could exist shared using a limited amount of storage space. Today, GIFs are used to share curt, looping 'video' clips on the internet, often used on social media as a response to a postal service. They are particularly bang-up for creating memes!

How to create a GIF — The Zamzar dog, difficult at work converting your files.

A perfect place to share your new found dearest of GIFs is Twitter. While Twitter limits you to 280 characters of text, the platform is the platonic place to share a GIF. Subsequently all, a picture tells a thousand words, and a moving moving-picture show, fifty-fifty more so.

Creating and uploading your own GIFs

Despite searching far and broad on the internet, sometimes you just tin't detect the right GIF for the occasion. The great news is that with Zamzar, you can rapidly and easily create your own looping GIF using your own video clips.

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Zamzar is the perfect place to catechumen that into a video file into a smaller and easier to share GIF.

1. Head over to Zamzar.com
2. Upload your video file using the 'Add files' button
3. Choose the paradigm file format 'gif'
4. Hitting 'Convert at present' and within a few seconds, your GIF is fix to download!
5. Once y'all have downloaded your file, visit Twitter and upload the GIF using the media button, as you would an paradigm.
6. You're good to go!

Finding and using existing GIFs

Adding a pre-existing GIF to Twitter is quick and like shooting fish in a barrel. You can pull in GIFs directly from Twitter's GIF library, or go to an external website and save the GIF to upload.

Twitter's GIF library : Become to Twitter.com and etch a new tweet, clicking on the GIF icon to search and insert a GIF directly from Twitter's GIF library.

GIPHY library:GIPHY is the dwelling to millions, of pre-made GIFs which are ready to share. Search for your new favourite GIF, by category, popularity or using the search part, and salvage to your estimator by correct-clicking on the moving paradigm and selecting relieve.

Once you have the perfect GIFs primed and set up to go, it'southward time to share with the world. Open Twitter.com, write your witty tweet and upload the GIF as you would an image, using the media button.

Alternatively, yous tin can re-create and paste a GIPHY website URL direct into your tweet and it volition appear automatically when you post.