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 wants you to share more GIFs, that’s why the company is testing a new GIF button inside its mobile app. Some lucky users are seeing a button that appears between the camera and poll icons ...

On this day, 30 years ago, communication improved dramatically with the invention of the GIF. Naturally, the best way to mark this historical development is by using GIFs as liberally as possible, and ...

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 ...

Twitter has begun testing a new feature for fans of reaction GIFs. Some users have spotted a dedicated GIF button in their Android apps, smack dab in the middle of the camera and poll icons. Bank of ...

Reply threads on Facebook are about to get a lot more animated. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, all users will get the new GIF comment button that Facebook began testing three months ...

When words fail, GIFs can speak volumes. Sometimes Twitter’s 140-character limit just isn’t enough to convey your message. But thanks to Twitter’s new introduction of the GIF button, expressing ...

Facebook has been hesitant with the idea of bringing animated GIFs to the News Feed, arguing this could create too many distractions from what really matters (as if those autoplay videos don’t do the ...

Facebook has finally rolled out the GIF button for comments, allowing users to reply to posts with the animated GIFs that have carved out their place in the online world. The addition of the feature ...

UPDATE: While Facebook added support for natively posting GIFs, the ability to leave them in comments was not added---thankfully, a new Chrome extension just launched which can do exactly that.

Gboard is getting a button to browse trending GIF searches. These trending searches are apparently sourced from Tenor. The trending GIFs button isn’t live in any user-facing version of Gboard yet.

Twitter user Phil Pearlman provided a screenshot of the button from the Android version of the app. As you can see in the tweet below, the dedicated GIF feature can be found in the “compose tweet” ...