[stonogo]

Your analogy is stupid and your comments are not helpful. I'm not modifying 3,600 workstations because some web programmer decided to mangle user-uploaded content without doing fundamental work to ensure graceful degradation.

[lfuller]

But that's your choice, as was Twitter's choice to make a modification compatible with the majority of its users.

[viggity]

you're seeing that because they wanted to show you what it looked like as an MP4. My understanding was that twitter would ship you the GIF if your browser didn't support MP4.