Twitter GIF Downloader

Twitter users spend an average of 35 minutes a day on the platform: nearly as long as TikTok users spend on their feeds. In that time you might scroll past hundreds or thousands of posts, and while you might fancy replying to plenty of them, hunting down the right comment, picture, or video for each one eats up serious time.

Ready-made GIFs are the ideal answer. The online world holds so many: expressing almost every thought, reaction, and mood: that there truly is a GIF for every occasion. With a library of these animated clips and memes at the ready, you'll have the perfect response at your fingertips for virtually anything that crosses your feed.

Sadly, Twitter doesn't make that easy. Most of what you see can't simply be downloaded: whether it's footage owned by a news organisation, a creator's original video, or an ordinary GIF or meme that's been doing the rounds for years. Twitter's system blocks you from saving it.

Enter the free Pro Followers Twitter GIF downloader. It lets you get past the download restrictions on the GIFs and memes you see on other users' accounts. In seconds you can enter the image's URL, click one button, and save it to your phone, computer, or device. As long as it's posted on a public account, it's yours to keep.

Here's the good news: almost all Twitter accounts are public. Only a small minority are set to private and block you from saving their content. You're unlikely to hit problems with our free tool, and if you do, you're probably trying to save a protected clip that nobody can download. For most users, the tool also handles other Twitter content; if it doesn't, our Twitter video downloader covers the rest, giving you the full functionality you'd expect a major social platform to provide.

It's no secret that Twitter's owner paid a fortune for the app and immediately cut costs, and staff: dramatically. Since the change of ownership, only features likely to boost revenue have been added. Previous management had already banned users from downloading videos, and there was never any chance the new regime would reverse that policy.

Allowing downloads from X would pile massive load onto Twitter's hundreds of thousands of servers: a cost the 'new' Twitter would never agree to absorb. So the ban on saving content stayed in place, and although GIFs are small files, they got swept up in it.

There's more to it than cost, too. Content uploaded to Twitter isn't owned by the app: it belongs to its original creator, who also holds the copyright. Anyone saving videos, photos, or even GIFs from Twitter is using material they don't own, and that can create legal headaches for the platform. If someone used Twitter content for illegal or unsavoury purposes, the app could find itself in the middle of an ugly lawsuit from the content's rightful owner. Blocking all downloads is the simplest way to dodge that risk.

Which brings us back to our free downloader. If you have any concerns about how you use the GIFs or other content you save, your best bet is to speak with a solicitor: we're not lawyers. We can tell you, though, that nobody has ever run into trouble for saving legitimate online content for their own personal use.

We're delighted to offer all of our free tools to customers and visitors alike. Just be smart: save and use Twitter GIFs and other content for your own enjoyment only.