{"id":215596,"date":"2017-06-15T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=215596"},"modified":"2017-06-15T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T06:28:12","slug":"facebook-launches-gif-button-in-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/215596-facebook-launches-gif-button-in-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launches GIF button in comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has launched support for animated GIF images in comments via a button.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the 30th anniversary of the introduction of an enhanced version of the format to Compuserve.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/06\/14\/facebook-gif-comments\/?ncid=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch reported<\/a><\/strong> that the new feature takes the form of a GIF button that lets you search for an image to post.<\/p>\n<p>The platform has supported GIFs for two years, but required users to provide an external URL to the image.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s Messenger service also supports the format, and the company said almost 13 billion GIFs were sent on Messenger over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Day 2017 saw 400 million GIFs posted on Messenger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-215602\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook GIF button\" width=\"449\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button.jpg 449w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button-430x430.jpg 430w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Facebook-GIF-button-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/215394-behind-the-scenes-at-facebooks-epic-offices-in-johannesburg.html\">Behind the scenes at Facebook&#8217;s epic offices in Johannesburg<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has launched support for animated GIF images in comments via a button.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,33164],"class_list":["post-215596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-gif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215608,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215596\/revisions\/215608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}