The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How to Post GIFs on Twitter”. Yohana Desta says, “Twitter now supports GIFs — better late than never. Users of the social network have long requested the ability to tweet the endlessly looping animations. They got their wish on Wednesday, when Twitter announced the update via a tweet from its support team (it’s your move now, Facebook)”. How to Post GIFs on Twitter Mashable  [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Twitter Now Supports GIFs”. Kurt Wagner says, “Twitter gave its users a GIFt on Wednesday. The company announced that GIFs, the animated images on continuous loop, can now be shared and viewed on Twitter’s iPhone, Android and web versions. GIFs will now appear in your timeline with a play button, like other video content. You can upload GIFs through the gallery button under the text box in the same way you upload a photo”. Twitter Now Supports GIFs Mashable  [...]

The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “Twitter Has Been Too Slow To Catch Up With The Visual Web”. Lauren Orsini says, “Eight years after the invention of Twitter, animated GIFs have finally come to the network. That’s way too slow, and it tells us a lot about the speed with which Twitter is adapting to the way people use the Web these days. Animated GIFs, image formats which display a looping video clip, have been around since the days of Usenet and America Online. For nearly a decade they fell out of fashion, until their slightly kitschy nostalgia brought them back... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Dick Costolo Reveals Twitter’s Toughest Conversations”. Lance Ulanoff says, “Twitter is a largely public sharing platform that, as it’s grown from within the U.S. to other parts of the world, has increasingly faced some very hard decisions about what, if anything, to hide from regional Twitter audiences. “The reality is, internally, that the hardest discussion we have are between the rights of one set of users and the rights of another set of users balanced against the laws of that country,” said Twitter CEO Dick... [...]

The latest post on ‘Re/code’ is titled “Twitter Is Exploring How to Enter China”. Jason Del Rey says, “Twitter CEO Dick Costolo doesn’t expect his company’s service to be unblocked in China anytime soon, but he admitted on Wednesday at the inaugural Code Conference that Twitter is working on figuring out what kind of service it could launch there down the road. Costolo said Twitter is in the “very beginning stages of conversations about what it would look like or feel like.” He did not provide any more detail”. Twitter Is Exploring How to Enter China Re/code  [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Using User Generated Content To Boost Sales”. Marketing Land team says, “If you do online retail, you probably know all about SEO, SEM and other acronyms. But how about UGC: user generated content? UGC might be a good way to allow your own customers to make pitches to new ones about your products. The folks at Offerpop have put together an infographic pull of ideas, such as using photos and videos from customers to aggregating customer reaction to your social campaigns”. Using User Generated Content To... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “TweetDeck Enables Team Sharing Of Scheduled-Tweet Queues & Posting Photos In Advance”. Martin Beck says, “Twitter-owned TweetDeck is taking steps into HootSuite territory by adding the ability to share photos in scheduled posts and, perhaps more importantly, for social teams to work together on a shared queue of posts. The announcement yesterday on Twitter’s blog focused on being able to include photos on tweets scheduled in advance. It’s a feature HootSuite, the leading social media management dashboard,... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Twitter Forecast: 24% Growth In 2014, Led By Surge In Asia-Pacific Region”. Martin Beck says, “Twitter’s active user base stands to grow by 24.4% in 2014, fueled by an especially strong surge in the emerging markets of India and Indonesia, according a forecast released today by eMarketer. In fact, the Asia-Pacific region has more active Twitter users than either North America or Western Europe, according to eMarketer, and by the end of the year will be home to 30% of the world’s active Twitter users. By 2018,... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Report: Twitter Will Have Nearly 400 Million Users by 2018”. Seth Fiegerman says, “Better late than never. Twitter is projected to top 300 million users worldwide in 2016 and have nearly 400 million users by 2018, according to a new report from eMarketer. That might sound like a lot in the aggregate, but the data shows just how much Twitter’s user growth is slowing on a year-over-year basis. SEE ALSO: Will Twitter Ever Be Mainstream? To make matters worse, Twitter execs had reportedly expected to hit 400 million users in 2013.... [...]

The latest article on  ‘Marketing Land’ is titled “Twitter Is Testing A Way To Encourage More Video Sharing”. Martin Beck says, “Twitter appears to be testing a feature to encourage more video sharing on its network. The test — first reported by Peter Kafka in re/code and apparently limited to the Twitter iOS app — prompts users to post a trailer clip from Seth McFarland’s upcoming “A Million Ways to Die in the West” movie when they start typing in the hashtag, “#AMillion …” The video clip is apparently not an ad — it’s labeled “A Video provided... [...]