Yes, seconds of video. That's the price you have to pay on Twitter to not have your content turned into a blob of smudge. 15mb is the total bucket size you nee

Yes, seconds of video. That's the price you have to pay on Twitter to not have your content turned into a blob of smudge. 15mb is the total bucket size you need to fill. How you fill that bucket depends on: Length Palette Dithering settings The actual amount of pixels changed in the segment of video you're showing You then embark on a journey to take your original 10 second video segment and produce the ideal 15mb gif by tweaking all of the above. Or you just upload the whole 10 second video to imgur and get back an 8mb pixel perfect mp4. https://twitter.com/DeusVerus/status/1004657962663596032 https://twitter.com/DeusVerus/status/1004657962663596032 https://twitter.com/spetulla/status/1072604230681329665 https://twitter.com/spetulla/status/1072604230681329665 https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/1064241248049881088 https://twitter.com/mbostock/status/1064241248049881088 https://twitter.com/veltman/status/1068226765632327680 https://twitter.com/veltman/status/1068226765632327680 All of these posts are hand-crafted gifs designed to work around Twitter's video compression.