IFS

| May 18, 2016

After a 55 million dollar investment from venture capital funders, the world’s largest website for animated GIF search and creation, Giphy, is on the rise—and with it has come the increasing popularity of GIF content. As Giphy says on their own blog, GIF-content is actually redefining and revolutionizing the way people share information. An animated GIF (arguably pronounced both as “jif” and “gif”) is a type of media file that can be inserted into personal mes...

socialmediatoday | May 17, 2019

TweetDeck has followed that up with the announcement that users will now be able to add GIFs, threads, polls, and emoji, and utilize image tagging, all via TweetDeck. The additions are significant for social media managers who utilize the native tweet management platform - and while TweetDeck still lags behind some other third party platforms with its various tools and options, it's a solid tool for maintaining awareness of tweet trends and mentions, and managing your presence. Twitte...

| May 05, 2016

In an abusively technical blog post published on Thursday, Twitter’s Director of Engineering for Search Infrastructure, Sam Luckenbill, said the company is taking another stab at the technology underpinning its search engine to make it better at identifying what exactly it is that people are searching for....

Google | June 28, 2019

Google now has a “Share GIFs” section in image search results that lets users immediately share GIFs to different apps. This feature is powered by Google’s own GIF search engine, which has grown considerably since acquiring Tenor last year....