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How to Make an Animated Twitter Avatar

by Robert Quigley | 1:48 pm, January 10th, 2011

Twitter is a popularity contest and animated GIFs remain the coolest thing on the Internet, so it follows that if you can make your Twitter avatar into an animated GIF, you will be the coolest kid on school and thusly win Twitter. But how to do it? Sadly, if you upload an animated GIF to Twitter when you’re trying to set your icon and you have to resize the GIF, the animation breaks. But Greg Leuch has written a short, handy guide to overcoming adversity and making your Twitter avatar as animated as the twinkling stars in heaven above:

1. Find a suitable animated GIF or create one of your own at 3fram.es.

2. Use the tool below to automatically resize your GIF to Twitter’s 48×48:

3. Download the resulting image, log in to your Twitter profile, and select the GIF for your Twitter profile picture.

That’s it! If you don’t want to bother with the web tool Leuch has a guide to animating your avatar using Photoshop.

(Greg Leuch via BuzzFeed)

  • AveSharia

    Perhaps you should not that 3fram.es is not exactly SFW… Yikes.

  • AveSharia

    *note

  • http://www.houstonanimation.com Animation Geek

    Great Robert, now, we’ll have a ton of flashing images on Twitter :)….

    Fellow Geek

  • Anonymous

    I only get 0 KB files back. Didn’t work at all. :(((

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5AI2L5NK5Z5UKX3WALJ2TPOWM Dana Morozova

    You can also use Video Avatar. Good tool for cropping videos and make animated pictures
    http://www.geovid.com/video_avatar/ – link

  • http://twitter.com/MoeiiMaker PSΣUDΩΠIΣM

    its works!! my avatar shakes

  • http://twitter.com/esosh esra

    mine only works on my profile.. not in my tweets :( how can i fix that?

  • Damienwilson36

    SAME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • http://twitter.com/ImJstAPandaBear r1ckynutz

    ditto

  • Billzabubba

    cant download my resized gif. getting The file “billzabubba-animated-3-2.gif” could not be opened because it is empty.” error message.

  • Gimpishfiend

    Same here also here same.

  • Fuckyou

    it doesnt fucking work!

  • yeah

    doesn’t work…!!

  • yeah

    doesn’t work…!!

  • Aaaaaaaaaa

    look what I´ve found:
    http://www.ucai.info/twitgif.php

  • Kurt_sutherland

    Twitter keeps saying its too big…

  • http://twitter.com/YoungEclectic Robert Lapp

    Hey guys. Just open the image in another tab after you made it at 3fram.es and then download the file directly to your desktop. From there just upload it to Twitter directly without resizing and it should work. it worked for me. 
    Check it! http://twitter.com/#!/YoungEclectic

    Thanks for the article!!
    Rob

  • http://twitter.com/TweetGif Tweetgif

    LoL, This is a cool tool! I’m going recommend this site for
    animated gif site ٩(●̮̮̃•)۶
    http://tweetgif.com/

  • Shejpep

    When using Chrome: Copy the Image-URL of the preview image that shows up at the tool on this page, and open it in a new tab by pasting the url, and just hit save as. Worked for me (:

  • http://twitter.com/glamaFez John Sandin

    like

  • Jaelyndeje

    how do i resize it ? i see no tool

  • Moi

    Use what tool?  Can’t see anything bah!

  • http://www.twitter.com/noles506 Noles

    Maybe you should be working, at work.. instead of playing on the internet.

  • Blah

    how the fuck is this supposed to work… i uploaded a gif and it shows up and how the hell do you save the small version of it? the thumbnail doesnt work!

  • Ummm

    sentoff

  • Cocksman

    fuck

  • Jody Hammond

    Says the person who takes time to reply back…

  • amy

     That person is probably a loser with no job.


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