Twitter’s testing a gif button

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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.

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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:

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