Why don't animated GIFs work as my picture on Twitter?

pls send me my email: goldenservice0755@gmail.com, if some on e known, tkx.

do animated gif work for background or profile pictures?

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.

hope we can get animated GIFS up there soon!!!

Animated GIF itself has strong Digital Rights Management, therefore most developers will block their use for their own protection....closed shop like Apple!

I have same problem also

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

Twitter... dammit - Get it 2 work with uploading animated images as profile pics! (Grrrrrrr)

Works for me: http://twitter.com/pilchardmusic

Mine worked....took some coercion....remember it has to be an animated GIF

www.twitter.com/kdstonehill

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..

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 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'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.

Sorry Varun Hemachandran they may have allowed it at one time but it is not an option now at all.

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.

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

@signups piss me off
There you go! :P

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.

'planetfish' has one. check it out.

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