How to make animated avatar (by Aaron Meyers)

Pimp your Twitter avatar. Make it animated.

Instructions (Easy):

1. Find your imagery (or use 3fram.es to make an animated GIF and save to your computer).
2. Upload your animated GIF to be resized:

3. Download the resized image and upload to your Twitter profile!

 
Instructions (Advanced):

1. Find your imagery (or use 3fram.es to make an animated GIF).
2. Import your animated GIF into Photoshop (details), or create your animation from still frames.
3. Resize your image to a 48×48 dimension (the secret dimensions!).
4. ‘Save for Web’ as a GIF, tweak your colors, and save.
5. Upload to your Twitter profile!

 
Share your results by posting your Twitter URL in the comments!
 

Note: Animated image URLs are validly returned in the Twitter API, however some apps may not animate your GIFs.


Inspired by all the Blah Blah Blah on Twitter. Hacked by @gleuch.
Props to @aarontweets for 3fram.es.