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		kudu on June 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter's GIF hack This article makes it sound like Twitter invented a whole new optimization, when they really just recycled a concept already in use by gfycat (http://www.gfycat.com/) and MediaCrush (https://mediacru.sh/).

ddevault on June 19, 2014 [–]

The latter being open source (I made it): https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

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