Dear Twitter (and everyone else), please end your obsession with autoplay!
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#BJFP)
Autoplaying videos, gifs and Vines look pretty, sure, but battery life, mobile data allowances and smartphone performance are all far more important to users
Twitter has just introduced auto-playing video, Vines and gifs on mobile. "Oh great!" you may say: "Just what we needed! " more things to, er, chew through our data and battery life?"
To be fair to Twitter, you can opt out and revert to click-to-play (see below), but Twitter could have just made autoplay opt in. Instead it is forcing users to hunt out a setting and check a box just to keep things the way they were.
