#giphy updates

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Giphy presents: GIF Bomb!

The Internet as we know it is 25 years old and it’s safe to say it’s grown a little...stale in its old age. So Giphy and Animated Text have teamed up to create GIF BOMB, pumping a little excitement into the websites you use everyday! Enter a website URL into the GIF Bomb field and push the button!  We’ll give you back that same website with a completely random Animated Text GIF overlayed on top of it. Any article, TV show recap, top 10 list or quiz will be improved ten-fold by the weirdo brilliance of Animated Text!   

We know YOU’RE ready for a radder, badder Internet, but what about your dull co-worker or boring family members? They’re why we’re hiding every GIF BOMB’d website within a secret shortened URL! So, share the links with anyone you want and give them a surprise! They’ll appreciate the sneaky attempt to welcome them to the next phase of Internet usage...or they’ll get really flustered and have no idea what happened. Either way, you’re the big winner! 

TRY OUT GIF BOMB TODAY!

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Wordpress and Movable Type: Giphy Tools for Publishers!

Animated GIFs are a proven way to improve traffic, increase time on site, and promote sharing on social media platforms. Today we’re pleased to announce two new tools for publishers that will alow publishers to better utlize the power of GIFs: GiphyPress for Wordpress and GiphyType for Movable Type.

These tools are similar in functionality to our extensions, but specially designed for native integration into these two major publishing platforms. Have fun with all your new visitors!

GiphyPress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/giphypress/

GiphyType: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

These tools, and other fun things, can be found on our Labs page!

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GIFs, GIFs Everywhere With The New Giphy Browser Extensions! 

We want thank the thousands of Google Chrome users who’ve made the Giphy Chrome Extension a success, and we appreciate their continued feedback and support.

Today we’re happy to announce official extensions for Firefox and Safari. As with our Chrome extension, our new Safari and Firefox extensions make finding and sharing that perfect GIF a cinch. It’s perfect for quickly and seamlessly adding GIFs to emails, tweets, blog posts, and more. 

The Giphy Safari extension: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

The Giphy Firefox extension: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 

These tools, and other fun things, can always be found on the Giphy Labs page!

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Giphy Turns 1 Year Old, with the Help of the Giphy Birfday Bot!

Last February, Giphy was started as a weekend hack project. What began on a whim ended up taking the internet by storm! 1 year later, we've gone from 15,000 GIFs to 1 MILLION GIFs...and so much more:  

Now, we have Giphy GIFs on Facebook and Giphy GIFs on Twitter. We've developed an incredible directory of the most talented GIF artists on the Internet. We've partnered with worldwide brands, movies, and musicians. And we're just getting started! 

But first, it's time to take a break and celebrate our birthday! So, having tackled the GIF technology, we tasked our engineers to do something simple: whip up a quick super-intelligent artificial life form who loves nothing more than partying. That's how the Giphy Birfday Bot was born! All week, Birfday Bot's saying "happy birthday" to random people all over the world. If it's your birthday, tweet at him and he'll send you a special birthday GIF!

Thanks for making the 1st year of Giphy's existence so awesome. We're looking forward to what comes next!

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Google+ is like that one overachieving sibling who follows all the rules, gets good grades and stays out of trouble — therefore their parents COMPLETELY ignore them. Well, guess what, Google+? Today, Giphy is showing you some love!

Google+ is a fantastic way to utilize Giphy. Pick any GIF out of our sprawling library of GIFs and simply paste the address into your new post. Without doing anything else, the GIF appears, fully animated! Giphy has all the GIFs, Google+ has easy GIF posting — it's a perfect combination!

Team Giphy is a big fan of Google+ and we're going to be a lot more active our Google+ page. So, Google+ users: give us a follow!

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All the GIFs, Now Available in Your Twitter Feed! 

Using GIFs on Twitter just got a lot more exciting! Giphy links now appear as animated GIFs, directly in your Twitter post. Post those reaction GIFs in the moment — your friends won't have to click links to see those hilarious Anchorman GIFs anymore.

The best part is: you don't have to do anything! Keep using Giphy links on Twitter the same way you always have. Use the Twitter button to share a GIF, or simply copy and paste the address into a tweet. We'll take care of the rest!

Want to try it out? Tweet a GIF at @giphy! (And if you're not following us yet — what gives? You're missing out!)

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Come join the GIF DANCE PARTY, now presented by Giphy!

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Favorites. You all asked for it and asked for it...and then asked for it some more. So, guess what: we're giving them to you. You can now save your favorite Giphy GIFs to a personalized Favorites page!

Click "Favorites" at the top right hand of the Giphy screen, sign in via Facebook, and then favorite GIFs until your little pixelated heart is content. You can access all your Favorite GIFs at any time by clicking "Favorites" again at the top. If it was any easier, we'd be inside your brain.

But we're not. We're just inside your heart.