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By Robin Sinha | Updated: 19 June 2014 11:44 IST

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Twitter has finally given the gift of gif animation to its millions of s. The feature is available for Android, iOS and Web s. 229i

Twitter announced the much-wanted gif animation feature via a Twitter stating "Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs on http://Twitter.com , Android and iPhone," followed by a gif animation.

Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs on http://t.co/wJD8Fp317i, Android and iPhone. http://t.co/XBrAbOm4Ya
-- Twitter (@) June 18, 2014

It has been noted that s on iOS would be able to watch the gif animations by tapping on a dedicated play button. The gif images will not animate automatically as to prevent s from ing any unwanted data. s can gif images via the gallery button the same way in which normal images are ed.

Notably, Twitter s before the introduction of this feature could only video content via the Vine application and gif animations via third-party apps like TwitPic or Giphy.

Additionally, it has been understood that while other social websites like Pinterest already have this feature, Facebook is still adamant on not including the gif animation feature (as noted by The Verge) , as it believes they will make the News Feeds look not so appealing.

Last week, some Twitter s iPad apps. It's still not clear whether Twitter is rolling out this feature to all s, or if it is something the company is testing in certain areas.

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