Dear Twitter (and everyone else), please end your obsession with autoplay!

Autoplaying videos, gifs and Vines look pretty, sure, but battery life, mobile data allowances and smartphone performance are all far more important to usersTwitter 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 forcin