Twitter now supports animated GIF's on its desktop, Android and iOS platforms. The GIF's will not play automatically, but users will have to press a play button accompanied with the GIF or just click on the tweet to view them.

The company made the announcement via a tweet, to demonstrate the animated GIF's:

"Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs," Twitter wrote in a tweet on Wednesday -- which was accompanied by a GIF showing a man holding a cute fluffy dog with the caption "GIFs got me like."

Twitter is also rolling out support to its API, that will allow third-party developers to offer similar support in their client applications. Several other social networks and blogging sites, like Pinterest and Tumblr, already offer support for animated GIFS. However, social networking giants Twitter and Facebook have been the exceptions. Facebook has decided not to allow GIFs on its site because it reportedly believes that they will make the News Feeds very chaotic.