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Thursday 04 February 2016 11:45 am

Twitter’s testing a gif button

By: Lynsey Barber

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In Twitter's ongoing adventure to remain relevant, its latest potential product innovation will likely illicit this kind of reaction from the twitterverse:

Several users have reported seeing a dedicated gif button on the Twitter mobile app, just like the picture and polls options users have when posting a tweet now.

Read more: Twitter chapter and verse? Here's what the 10k character limit looks like

Twitter responded to a request for comment from TechCrunch, which first reported the news, with this:

It might not be a feature that can single handedly turn the troubled company around, but it's certainly going to make existing users happy:

Feeling all Veruca Salt about Twitter new GIF button pic.twitter.com/IdDXqQfIn8

— RACHELLE 🚀rhymes with gazelle (@MissRachelle) February 4, 2016

Looks like Twitter has a built in GIF search button now pic.twitter.com/w3yrLP88gq

— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) February 4, 2016

How I feel about having a #gif button on @twitter for Android pic.twitter.com/Zeuck6qsjk

— Anthony McMahon (@amcmahont) February 4, 2016

https://twitter.com/junctionette/status/695059007816482817

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