Twitter lately added Animated PNG help to their cell app, however right this moment the corporate determined to roll again help because of the threat they may very well be used to assault photosensitive epileptics.
We lately discovered a bug that allows you to add a number of animated pictures to a Tweet utilizing Animated PNG recordsdata. APNGs ignore our safeguards and might trigger efficiency points for the app and your gadget. Today we’re fixing the bug which can not permit APNGs to animate when Tweeted.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 23, 2019
The concern is that APNGs ignore auto-play settings, that means epileptics may be shocked by flashing pictures tuned to impress seizures. While Twitter stated no-one has to this point been injured, the danger if not theoretical, as trolls have up to now and lately attacked epileptics by taking on hashtags utilized by the neighborhood.
Twitter customers can nonetheless use gifs, which may be prevented from animating utilizing auto-play settings.
