In the last few months mental health has dominated the news headlines and the impact of social media on our mental wellbeing has been at the top of the agenda. It comes as no surprise that a survey by Nuffield Council on Bioethics has found that the pressure of social media is making many people turn to cosmetic surgery to achieve the perfect look.

According to the survey, social media causes an increased focus on body image and pressure to achieve the perceived perfection of social media influencers and celebrities even though their images may well have been airbrushed or altered – this is particularly the case in posts aimed at women. The survey also showed that young people are also becoming a target for the unregulated British cosmetic industry with plastic surgery games and advertisements. It calls for plastic surgery to be regulated in the same way that tattoos and sunbeds are to protect young people.

We think it’s time to head back to basics, lose the air brushing and have celebrities embrace their ‘real’ image.

This week Twitter released a blog post detailing a series of changes to the iOS app that aim to make it ‘lighter, faster and easier to use’ according to Grace Kim, the VP of User Research and Design. The most notable changes include circular profile images and more intuitive icons, the main goal being to make the app more user-friendly to new members of the online service. However, some regular Twitter users are underwhelmed, one tweeting, “nothing done about dangerous bot-infestation”. This refers to the discovery that up to 15 per cent of accounts could be bots.

The change also means that reply, retweet and like counts now update live as you view the tweet instead of requiring a refresh, and this has inspired a trend: watching Donald Trump’s retweets increase in real time. Viewers watch in morbid fascination as the number of people supporting his controversial tweets steadily rises with the live count highlighting the fact that there is actually a person behind every retweet.