Yep, Facebook announces his support for Animated GIF's on news feed.... Now you can express your emotion and add little more Humor to your status.
Yesterday Facebook issued the Following statement to the TechCrunch
“We’re rolling out support for animated GIFs in News Feed. This is so you can share more fun, expressive things with your friends on Facebook.”
How to Upload GIF and How does It works
You just can't upload an Animated GIF directly as like Image. Instead of doing that just Copy and paste the .gif URL in your status bar, just as you would do with any other link That's it, Like this as follows
But in the past, also we having a feature to upload the GIF to a news feed from
Giphy, where users could upload the GIF straight from the company’s website. But now, Facebook has added GIF support for images from all sites.
For now, GIF support is only available to people, not for Facebook's business pages. TechCrunch also reported that Facebook’s mobile app does not support the GIF however, this will likely be available later.