Why don't animated GIFs work as my picture on Twitter?
I'm trying to set my picture with an animated GIF but I only get the first frame as my avatar. I have even resized all the frames to 48px square and the filesize is still (well) within the limit. In fact it is 6,252 bytes!
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Inappropriate?Hi Mathew, this is Golden from China, same question I have, mine is JPG, and it is noly 14k, less than 700k, it can not be shown in twitter, I don't know why??
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?pls send me my email: goldenservice0755@gmail.com, if some on e known, tkx.
I’m thankful
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Inappropriate?do animated gif work for background or profile pictures?
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Inappropriate?I believe some kind of conversion is made when you upload a picture. It doesn't seem to discriminate so any picture that's uploaded is converted and put on their S3 servers. That's probably why your animated GIF doesn't work but I could be wrong.
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I believe this too, but... we'll could put animated gifs on background or profile picture? -
Inappropriate?Animated GIF itself has strong Digital Rights Management, therefore most developers will block their use for their own protection....closed shop like Apple!
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?Fwiw, Twitter is aware of the issue because they have a blogpost on the Twitter Status Blog regarding this (link here)
It seems that with profile pic uploads, users have the most trouble with .gifs and the most success with .pngs and .jpgs -
Inappropriate?Twitter... dammit - Get it 2 work with uploading animated images as profile pics! (Grrrrrrr)
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It does work - Sometime! The one I have right now, I had to upload 30 times before the avatar showed animation, the other times just 1st frame was shown... Twitter needs to do some re-programming on that part. -
Inappropriate?Mine worked....took some coercion....remember it has to be an animated GIF
www.twitter.com/kdstonehill
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I've seen other members with animated DP's. But when I tried to upload an animated GIF, it said "Sorry, we don't support those!" or something to that effect..
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?Guess we never will get an answer from Twitter on why they won't support animated gifs - I've directed the question to the official Twitter account, and to @Jack (Founder of Twitter), but no answer...
So pour of Twitter to deny this feature, as I cannot see any valid explanation to this!!
I’m VERY annoyed!
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Inappropriate?I guess no one took the time to read the previous comments before going on asking the same question repeatedly that was accurately answered so I will repost.
LHS replied 7 months ago
Animated GIF itself has strong Digital Rights Management, therefore most developers will block their use for their own protection....closed shop like Apple!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?
I've seen other members with animated DP's
@signups piss me off
Look's like you need to follow your own advice, and read twice before you post.
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I think its funny how some members are allowed to post animated gif's and other's aren't. There are even reports that repeatedly trying to upload the gif in question yields results.
I’m amused
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Inappropriate?Sorry Varun Hemachandran they may have allowed it at one time but it is not an option now at all.
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Inappropriate?Notice the one account that had a link to show they have animated gif has been removed and the other that said he did does not have one.
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Inappropriate?I've got an animated background (for now) I've got to let the twitter folks know about a bug though that allowed me to get it. But its not entirely outside the realm of possibility
http://www.twitter.com/steeltoad
I’m amused
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Inappropriate?http://louisgray.com/live/2009/01/twi...
That should pretty much say it all. They once allowed animated GIF, now they don't because of certain bugs described on the site i posted. Users who already had them were allowed to keep them. New users are not allowed to upload them. Aye que triste.
I’m NOT AMUSED!!!
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Inappropriate?'planetfish' has one. check it out.
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