Dear friends,
After 10 years, the Hug Fairy is shutting down. Twitter's new API access policies have made it impossible to keep going without spending thousands on premium access.
Farewell to you all, and thanks for all the hugs.
This change may mean the end of the Hug Fairy on Twitter.
If so, please know that I love every one of you, and will still be out there, broadcasting hugs into the night sky.
In all, 607,500 people signed up for , sending 4.8 million hugs in total. People from all around the world sent hugs, and it was a great privilege to be able to see all the joyful interactions that were sparked.
Thank you thank you thank you❤️
I am so grateful to all the people who used the hug fairy to send hugs over the years, turning what started out as a silly weekend project into something that touched far more people than I could have imagined.