noobvictoria.blogg.se

• Using gifs on facebook messenger download#

and Canada, as announced by Messenger boss David Marcus. Update: Facebook has officially rolled out the integrated GIF search feature to iOS users in the U.S. Tumblr launched a GIF search engine and a dedicated GIF site in recent weeks, Twitter ( kinda) introduced GIFs last year and made them autoplay this summer, while Hulu, Disney and the folks behind recently sold social app Path are among the many others to have dabbled in GIFs in some form this year alone. company isn’t alone in making a push on GIFs, though. That said, they do show that Facebook is keen to get you sharing more multimedia inside your chat sessions. These two integrations are tests at this point, which means there’s no guarantee that either will roll out to all Messenger users. Type in your term, tap the magnifying glass icon and a selection comes up.

The GIF button is an obvious way to juice up the use of GIFs - and potential downloads of those GIF apps - and the company is also testing another pilot with an integrated GIF search option.įirst spotted by Mashable, this experiment - which is apparently live with a selected number of users in Canada - allows users look up GIFs from Giphy and Riffsy (those two again) and stickers within the space where they type messages to friends. So that could mean that Facebook makes other kinds of content more easy to share via Messenger? We shall see. “With this feature, we’re testing various ways to make it even easier to send great content - like GIFs - with just a few taps.”

“GIFs have seen success as a rich media format within Messenger,” a company spokesperson told us. Using your Facebook friends list as an address book, Facebook Messenger lets you send and receive messages, phone calls, photos, documents, GIFs, and so much more from whoever youre speaking to you can even play games with them. Facebook declined to directly answer that question when we posed it to the social networking company. Is that prompt an indicator that these GIF apps have received a lukewarm response from Messenger users?

Using gifs on facebook messenger download#

Interestingly, once sent, the GIFs include a link to download either GIF for Messenger (Riffsy) or Giphy for Messenger, as you can see in the screenshot above. The downside is, of course, that your selection of GIFs is more limited.