But now there’s good news for GIF nerds: Animated Twitter avatars are back. GIF avatars, the company claimed, were never supported, even though users had countless tutorials for sneaking past ...

Animated avatars were generally discouraged in early Twitter — the only way to get one was to make the GIF image a set of very specific sizes. Eventually, in 2013, then-CEO Dick Costolo ...

This past week, the internet’s GIF repository, Giphy, was acquired for $400M. Replying to Snap’s Bitmoji, Facebook’s Avatars reached the U.S. And Animal Crossing’s success continues to ...

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Twitter apparently didn’t like them either, and according to BuzzFeed, you can no longer use an animated GIF as an avatar on the service. RIP, weird flashing things. This is what BuzzFeed shared ...