Good news on Twitter! You will be able to share GIFs on your newsfeed. The social network allows you to create GIFs directly from the integrated camera on iOS…
iOS users can now create their own animated images in the app. This is more than just GIF sharing as this tweet shows.
When you access the Twitter camera in the tweet’s composer, you’ll see a new “GIF” creation option, in addition to “Video”, “Capture”, and “Live”. So you can create a GIF much more easily.
The steps are very simple:
- On the Twitter app, tap Create new tweet;
- Select the Camera icon;
- Choose the option “GIF; »
- Create your GIF, then share it with your followers.
Once you’ve created the GIF, it’s automatically saved to your camera roll as a GIF in your pictures folder, because it’s not a video.
Your GIF will display like this by looping, much like the Boomerang feature on Instagram. It may not be very long, just a few seconds, but it can go viral. Indeed, “short videos” have always had the reputation of being creative and impactful content.
A simpler GIF option
This isn’t actually new, as in 2019 Twitter already made it possible to turn your Live Photos on iOS into GIFs.
This GIF maker feature converts your iOS Live Photos into a looping GIF right from Twitter’s compose window.
When you upload an image from your iOS device, which you took with Live Photo enabled, you will be able to convert that photo into a GIF just by tapping the icon on the preview.
The new GIF process created this week is pretty much the same, except the steps are more simplified.
More new features to come
In recent weeks, Twitter has not stopped presenting many news and updates for its users. In particular, he announced that he was developing and testing a new way to limit the reach of publications on his social network. This is “Circle”, a way to create target communities for tweets, so that they are not public to all of a user’s followers.
You also might have missed the posting of clips from Spaces. Select hosts on iOS can now capture 30 seconds of audio from recorded Spaces to share to other users on Twitter.
Hosts will be able to create audio clips from recorded spaces that can be shared via a tweet that will also link to the entire recording. The new tool is a way for hosts to boost interest in their spaces while highlighting specific parts of a show without having to share an entire recording.
Although the feature that allows you to create GIFs on Twitter is only available for iOS users at the moment, it is clearly a simple and practical tool to generate attention and create engagement on the network. social.
And you, what do you think of this new feature?