You can't it will just appear as a normal picture.
You can't use a GIF as your profile picture.
Save a gif to your computer and upload it as your profile picture on Twitter.
You need a picture with a .gif format. And it has to be animated.
Go to your settings, click on "profile" and then "delete this image".
The new recently enforced policy of Twitter to no longer allow animated GIFs affect mostly people who have tried to add a GIF to their profile after the policy was instated. For individuals that already had an animated GIF they will be allowed to keep it, but if it is ever changed, the individual then can no longer use an animated GIF.
You can create a "gif" through a computer program or on various online websites and then upload it in the same way you would upload a normal picture.
Only if you were a 2006-2007 member. Starting from 2008 YouTube did no longer allow Animated Gifs for profile pictures.
An animated GIF is an image encoded in a graphics interchange format (GIF), which consists of a number of pictures or frames in a single file and its graphic control extension that describes the same. GIFs are also used on Twitter and other social media sites. Sometimes users want to save these animated GIFs directly from the Twitterβs page to their device, be it Windows PC, Android or iPhone.
You can't use a gif as a display picture - it won't move.
Work it first on photoshop save it as .gif and then go to your settings and customize your them.
You can't, I'm pretty sure.
Answers.com doesn't have the ability for you to use videos on your profile yet. But you can use an animated .gif file instead.
If you mean an animated .gif, you add it exactly as you would add a photo or picture to your profile.(See the Related question.)