API animated gif file size limit

[spturri]

The documentation says we should be able to upload animated gif’s up to 15MB but it seems to cap at 5MB. Is there something I might be doing wrong or is the documentation out of date?

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/media/upload-media/uploading-media/media-best-practices

We are chunking the uploads.

[whattheshot]

I have a similar problem.

I can upload an animated gif with a size of 7MB with twurl. But when I try to attach it to a tweet, I get an error related to the size.

twurl -H upload.twitter.com -X POST "/1.1/media/upload.json" -f "test.gif" -F "media" | jq

{
  "media_id": 940648334259294200,
  "media_id_string": "940648334259294208",
  "size": 6669298,
  "expires_after_secs": 86400,
  "image": {
    "image_type": "image/gif",
    "w": 580,
    "h": 424
  }
}

Then

twurl -d "media_ids=940648334259294208&status=test animated gif" /1.1/statuses/update.json

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 324,
      "message": "Image file size must be <= 5242880 bytes"
    }
  ]
}

Why Twitter allow the gif to be uploaded in the first place but refuse to attach it with a Tweet?