After three months of testing, Facebook is finally rolling out the new GIF comment button to make reply threads more interesting and lively. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, the social network is extending the fun tool that lets people search and post GIFs from different services, like Giphy and Tenor, directly in the comments box for all users.
The occasion obviously made for some statistical announcements to highlight GIF popularity. According to the Facebook, almost 13 billion GIFs were sent on Messenger over the past year, with 400 million GIFs sent just on New Year’s Day 2017.
Though GIF support was added to Facebook a couple of years back, the process was little cumbersome as users had to enter the URL of a GIF hosted somewhere else. The new feature surely simplifies this.
But that's not all. To bring some more fun and animation to the birthday celebrations, Facebook is also running a poll for the US users about GIF pronunciation — hard or soft G. While you may take some time to decide, GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite has already taken his call standing next to soft G.
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GIF button for comments goes live on Facebook
After three months of testing, Facebook is finally rolling out the new GIF comment button to make reply threads more interesting and lively. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, the social network is extending the fun tool that lets people search and post GIFs from different services, like Giphy and Tenor, directly in the comments box for all users.
The occasion obviously made for some statistical announcements to highlight GIF popularity. According to the Facebook, almost 13 billion GIFs were sent on Messenger over the past year, with 400 million GIFs sent just on New Year’s Day 2017.
Though GIF support was added to Facebook a couple of years back, the process was little cumbersome as users had to enter the URL of a GIF hosted somewhere else. The new feature surely simplifies this.
But that's not all. To bring some more fun and animation to the birthday celebrations, Facebook is also running a poll for the US users about GIF pronunciation — hard or soft G. While you may take some time to decide, GIF Creator, Steve Wilhite has already taken his call standing next to soft G.