Twitter has said that it will now block animated PNG (APNG) files because the format doesn't respect autoplay settings and posed a threat to "the safety of people with sensitivity to motion and ...

Twitter is banning animated PNG image files (APNGs) from its platform, after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause ...

Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy ... a bug that had allowed people to add multiple animated images to a tweet and bypass Twitter's autoplay protections ...

Twitter has announced that it is blocking the APNG image format from its service. APNG is an animated PNG file, and Twitter is taking this step because it doesn't follow standard autoplay settings.