If you are a frequent Twitter user, you have noticed that Twitter is full of all kinds of funny GIF images or videos.
Twitter offers a wide variety of GIFs to improve user experience and make tweets more attractive and expressive. GIFs are essentially short, repetitive videos that are often used to convey emotions, reactions, and humor in ways that text or images cannot.
However, it is no longer possible to save these GIF files to your computer via a right mouse click. Where in the past the image could be saved, you will now see a “Copy GIF address” hyperlink.
However, it is still possible to save a GIF from Twitter to your computer or phone in a roundabout way. This is how it works.
How can you download a GIF image from Twitter?
Open Twitter. Right-click on the GIF image you want to save. Click on the “Copy GIF address” link.
Go to the website: https://redketchup.io/twitter-downloader. Place the copied link in the “Select tweet” field.
Then click on the “tweet” button to the right of it.
Change the “Download GIF as” setting to “MP4” to download the GIF image as a video, or to “GIF – Animated GIF” to download the GIF image as an animated GIF file.
Click on the “Download” button at the bottom.
You must now click the “download” button at the top right again to actually download the file.
You have now downloaded a Twitter GIF image to your computer.
However, if you use Twitter more often and you don't want to constantly repeat this process for each image, you can use the Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or for Firefox browser install the “Twitter media assist” browser extension. Click on the links for the relevant browser.
This allows you to add a download button below the GIF image in the tweet that is visible on Twitter. If you click on it, the GIF image will be immediately downloaded to your computer as a GIF file and as an MP4 video file.
I hope to have informed you with this. Thank you for reading!