Fortunately for Twitter, the GIF button has earned them some rare praise. The new feature is currently being tested on a small group of users.

Twitter has launched a new GIF button and search feature designed to help users find ready made clips to share. The firm says over 100 million animated GIFs were shared on the service last year.

The tech site didn’t mention how it got the information, but it did provide an image of what the Regram button might look like. TNW also found that Instagram is testing support for GIFs, a feature ...

And eventually, Facebook might loosen up and add a GIF button to the News Feed composer. After all, GIFs are just the best moments of video played on loop, and Facebook says video is its future.

A number of Twitter users are tweeting that they’ve spotted a dedicated GIF button on the platform’s mobile app. Many of the tweets regarding the feature appropriately also contain GIFs.

Twitter is adding a button on iOS, Android and the Web so you can search for GIFs by keyword and insert them into tweets and direct messages with a single tap.

A dedicated GIF button (pictured) has appeared on the accounts of a small number of Twitter users and clicking the button shows rows of ready-made clips for a wide range of occasions.