Twitter is a site overflowing with GIFs, making it a little baffling the company would make it so hard for users to save them.
If you’re looking to share a GIF with other Twitter users, the app’s Tweet GIF feature allows you to post your own Tweet with the GIF. However, downloading them to share on iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook and other apps and websites is a little trickier.
Thankfully, a handful of third-party websites and apps have some to the rescue. Follow the steps below to learn how to download and edit GIFs from Twitter.
How to save a gif from Twitter
GIFs have been a thing on Twitter for almost a decade, so you’d be forgiven for thinking the app would have introduced a way to save them by now.
Sadly, Twitter hasn’t gotten around to adding the feature, so you’ll need to call on the help of third-party websites if you want to download GIFs to your desktop or phone. While there are a handful of apps that make it possible to download GIFs from the mobile app in one process, you’ll actually need to use two different free sites to do the same on your desktop.
Thankfully, it’s still a pretty quick process – and it introduces some handy customisation features on the way!
What’ll you’ll need:
- A device to access Twitter.com
- Twitter Video Downloader
- EZGIF
The Short Version:
- Find the GIF you want to save on Twitter and copy the link
- Paste the link into Twitter Video Downloader and save it as a video
- Head to EZGIF to upload the video
- Make adjustments you want to make to the video
- Save it as a GIF
How to save a GIF from Twitter
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1Find the GIF you want to save on Twitter
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2Click the Share icon below the tweet
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3Click Copy Link to Tweet
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4Head over to Twitter Video Downloader
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5Click Ctrl and V to paste the tweet into the white box
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6Click Download to generate a video
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7Right click Download Video
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8Click Save Link As
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9Name your file and select a location
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10Click Save to save it as a video
You can keep it as it is or follow the steps below to convert it back into a GIF to share it that way
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11Next head to EZGIF’s video to GIF converter
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12Click Choose File
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13Select your video file
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14Click Open
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15Make adjustments
Here you can make any adjustments to your GIF, such as cropping, rotating or adding subtitles. You can skip this step if you don’t have any changes to make
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16Scroll down and click Convert to GIF
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17Scroll down again and right click Save
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18Click Save Link As
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19Name your GIF and select a location
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20Click Save to save your GIF
You should now be able to find your GIF on your desktop, in your downloads or wherever you chose to save it!
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Troubleshooting
There is currently no direct way to save a GIF within the Twitter app.
Like the sites above, third-party mobile apps exist that make it possible to download GIFs from your phone. Popular examples for iOS and Android include GIFwrapped and Tweet2GIF.
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Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest. To ensure this is possible, every member of the editorial staff follows a clear code of conduct.
Professional conduct
We also expect our journalists to follow clear ethical standards in their work. Our staff members must strive for honesty and accuracy in everything they do. We follow the IPSO Editors’ code of practice to underpin these standards.
