We are rolling out support for animated GIFs in News Feed.
You cannot upload the GIF directly to Facebook, as it wont work.
Once they users hit publish, the GIFs will auto-play on the Facebook with your current video autoplay controls.
Facebooks focus until now had been on video, as it introduced support for auto-playing videos in late 2013.
The move to support the format now points a critical change in Facebooks strategy.
When Twitter rolled out its support for GIFs last summer, Facebook did not move from its stand.
Facebook is one of the last social networks to provide support for GIFs to automatically play.
source: www.techworm.net
