New The People's Friend guidelines?

I've heard reports of new, and slightly confusing, guidelines for The People's Friend having been posted on Twitter yesterday. Given the date, and the fact they didn't seem clear, a couple of people have asked me if these are genuine.

I'm not on Twitter, so rely on their website for submission requirements. The 'latest guidelines' there are dated September last year. They don't match what has been seen, by some, on Twitter, and apparently the tweets didn't have the tone of a joke, so I'm not sure. 

When I know more, I'll post an update.

And here's the update, from Alan at TPF.

Hello! Everyone on the "Friend" is very busy, as you know, so from today onwards we won't be accepting submissions that have double line spacing or have formatting.

We also need double quotes for direct speech.

Please DO NOT have headers, footers or page numbers on your document. You must adhere to our word counts. 10% UNDER is OK, but not over.

It's taking up more and more time to get documents ready for our publishing system and that's why we're asking! Thank you!