A designer for X (formerly Twitter) polled users about adding animated GIFs for profile pics. Twitter banned GIF profiles in 2013, but old ones were allowed to keep them — including me. One person who ...

Changes are coming to Facebook. No, you won’t be paying for the service, but you will be able to change your static profile photo to a “short, looping video,” which Facebook is calling a “profile ...

Facebook just launched a slew of new profile features, including the ability to make your profile picture a GIF or set temporary profile pictures that will change after a specified amount of time. The ...

Hide your eyes. The search engine's social network is embracing the lively images as profile pics on desktop and mobile. Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, ...

While your friends were all busy worrying about Mark Zuckerberg stealing their private information this week, the real news out of Facebook is all about Facebook turning profile pictures into videos.

X appears to be considering letting users add animated GIFs to their profile pictures. Andrea Conway, a designer for the site formerly known as Twitter, tweeted a poll this week on the idea. As of ...