Twitter now allows users to upload higher-quality GIFs on its platform, but only on the web. The company has updated its documentation to reflect that animated GIFs of up to 15MB are now supported. However, its 5MB limit remains for those posting from its mobile apps.
This change was quietly made, as that same support page previously listed all animated GIFs across all platforms to be up to 5MB. While you can only upload larger GIFs through Twitter.com, there's perhaps a chance this will soon arrive on the company's mobile apps, but will likely have to see how well Twitter's infrastructure can handle this, and also how it'll impact user's data plans on mobile devices.
Sadly, there's no word about when GIF support will arrive for Tweetdeck.
Native GIF support arrived on Twitter in February thanks to a partnership with Giphy and Riffsy. In doing so, the actual image appeared in-tweet instead of forcing you to a website to view the image.
ALERT: Twitter now supports gifs up to 15MB! http://pic.twitter.com/PfyAiYRg5K
- Jessica L. Conditt (@JessConditt) July 11, 2016
We reached out to Twitter for additional comment and will update if we hear back.
Twitter expands GIF size limit to 15MB, but only for the web
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