Twitter Issued an Official Statement for Blocking Animated PNGs

Twitter is taking down animated PNGs from its platform. In an official announcement, the micro-blogging platform has mentioned that they are blocking the animated PNGs because it was not respecting their autoplay setting. To further explain why they have taken such a decision, Twitter also explained that it is a precautionary measure that they are taking in order to avoid any possible mishaps that can occur with epileptic patients. Twitter very recently discovered a bug that allows the users to add multiple animated PNGs in a single tweet and this bug allows it to bypass the autoplay protection file format that Twitter has been using. Management suspected that this bug can be misused by trolls and scammers on Twitter to trigger a seizure in epileptic patients. Although Twitter has denied any information in this regard, they are saying it is just a precaution that they are taking in order to make the platform user-friendly and safe for all users.