Peppering a conversion with GIFs can make things more fun and help you express your feelings. GIFs are also great for making online content like blog posts more appealing! But searching for the right ...

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Whether you pronounce it gif or jif -- the ever-popular GIF is finally available on Twitter. Twitter announced on Wednesday that it now supports graphic interchange format, or GIF, files, so users can ...

Facebook has acquired Giphy, the largest website for GIFs at a reported price of $400 million. Giphy will be a part of the Instagram team. By bringing Instagram and GIPHY together, we can make it ...

Facebook has acquired the popular GIF website GIPHY and is planning to integrate its GIF library to its photo-sharing app, Instagram. “GIPHY makes everyday conversations more entertaining, and so we ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...