Though there has been no official announcement, but the updated Twitter help page now reads, “Photos can be up to 5MB; animated GIFs can be up to 5MB on mobile, and up to 15MB on web.”
The change only pertains to the web version of Twitter — on mobile, the GIF limit is still 5MB. The microblogging platform is yet to indicate whether this will come to the mobile version of the site or not.
ALERT: Twitter now supports gifs up to 15MB! pic.twitter.com/PfyAiYRg5K
— Jessica L. Conditt (@JessConditt) July 11, 2016
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This is the latest in a series of welcome changes that Twitter is making. . In May, the company started counting images, polls and user names separately from its 140-character tweet limit
In June, Twitter started supporting videos up to 140 seconds in length.