Facebook has now enabled support for animated GIFs in users’
Timeline, taking a u-turn from its past decision.
People often use animated GIFs as a form of expression in
forums and message boards. Even twitter has supported animated content for
almost one year, but Facebook had so far avoided supporting them on its
platform to prevent the Timeline from looking “CHAOTIC”. HOWEVER, The company
has now backtracked on its original stand by allowing users to post GIFs to
their Timeline.
It has been revealed that Facebook users will only allow be
able to post the links to GIFs hosted by third-party sites. It is not known
whether Facebook will enable uploading such files to its platform in the
future. The links posted by users will automatically play depending on the
video auto-play setting.
According to TechCrunch’s report, the feature is only
available to regular users and not for pages and advertisers. As the feature is
still rolling out, posting a GIF may not work immediately for everyone but when
it does it surly will bring a new experience for long time Facebook users.
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