Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...

Twitter seems to be bringing all kinds of tools to the platform. After audio, Twitter is focusing on photos and, more specifically, GIFs. From now on, creating animated images on Twitter will be ...

Twitter made creating a GIF as easy as posting an image. Using the iPhone camera, users can capture a short video in the social-networking service’s app that is automatically converted into a GIF.

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has been around — and its pronunciation argued about — for decades, and given its prevalence on social media it's not likely to disappear anytime soon. Even inter ...