Twitter to Take Away the Ability to Tweet Multiple GIFs

Twitter Support on Monday announced that it's putting a stop to the hack, citing "performance issues."

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Well, that was fun while it lasted.

A hack was recently discovered that allows you to tweet two or multiple GIFs on Twitter by converting a GIF into an animated PNG. The social media platform is able to upload animated PNGs, which are known as Animated Portable Network Graphics.

Twitter users quickly took advantage of the hack.

when did twitter start allowing multiple gifs? am i late? https://t.co/2351dNCojc

— pussy (@LilNasX) December 15, 2019

Twitter Support on Monday announced that it is putting a stop to the hack, citing "performance issues."

"We recently found a bug that lets you add multiple animated images to a Tweet using Animated PNG files. APNGs ignore our safeguards and can cause performance issues for the app and your device," Twitter Support tweeted. "Today we’re fixing the bug which will no longer allow APNGs to animate when Tweeted."

We recently found a bug that lets you add multiple animated images to a Tweet using Animated PNG files. APNGs ignore our safeguards and can cause performance issues for the app and your device. Today we’re fixing the bug which will no longer allow APNGs to animate when Tweeted.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 23, 2019

"Existing APNG files uploaded to Twitter will not be removed, and our teams will look into building a similar feature that’s better for you and your Twitter experience," they continued.

Existing APNG files uploaded to Twitter will not be removed, and our teams will look into building a similar feature that’s better for you and your Twitter experience.

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 23, 2019

As one can imagine, people were not happy about the news.

twitter saw y’all tweeting multiple gifs at once and said pic.twitter.com/00xp25pgqG

— ✰ (@thrillerstan) December 23, 2019

YALL LITERALLY NEVER LET US WIN WTF

— emily (@starksyndrome) December 23, 2019

NO ONE wanted this fixed

— mesh (@ZAlNBERRY) December 23, 2019

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