Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by dredge » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

Introducing GIF search on Twitter
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Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by minimaxir » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell...

I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

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Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by JohnHammersley » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

I think Twitter just won the internet

:badger badger badger badger:

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by toosmart4u12 » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:37 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."

If you are really debating .gif and .mp4, you've missed the point entirely. It's about the communication medium, not the file format.

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by Grue3 » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."

And you need to click a blue play button to play it - not in gif spirit at all! Also it can only be saved as a video, which is likely terribly compressed from the original gif.

By the way, Tumblr had this feature for ages: even the icon is completely identical. [1]

[1] http://i.imgur.com/v59afJb.png

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by ryandvm » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

Sometimes I worry that our descendants many centuries from now will refer to this period of history as, "The Moronic Age."

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by atroyn » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

I don't understand why they'd choose this particular feature? Which group of users is this for?

Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

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Re: Introducing GIF search on Twitter

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Post by sigmar » Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."

The average user thinks "GIF" means short, embedded video. They don't know or care how it was encoded.