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Twitter Creates Bad Password List of 370 Words

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5 January 2010 3 Comments

Twitter the Most Popular Micro Blogging Service has Started rejecting Bad Passwords which Twitter thinks are easy to Guess. According to Twitter, This step would help them to protect their User data in their mission to provide a safe and secure environment on Twitter.

The Company has banned password patterns like “123456″ , “Password” , Car Names Like “Porsche” , Football Team names like “Chelsea” “arsenal ” , Celebrity names and other Science Fiction Keywords like trustno1, NCC1701 and THX1138.

The Site has Put total 370 such words in their banned password list, which the users can use when they sign up for a new account .

According to a Research, An average internet user is asked for password by 23 websites in one month and more than Fifty Percent use the same password every time, Five Percent of Internet Users have the same password on each website.

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  • Tweets that mention Twitter Creates Bad Password List of 370 Words -- Topsy.com said:

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by gagandeep Singh, Rahul Ranjan. Rahul Ranjan said: RT @gagan4687: Twitter Creates Bad Password List of 370 Words http://bit.ly/5lPLHM #Twitter #Security #Password [...]

  • football forum said:

    bad passwords indeed! you can’t use those! :)

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  • Sabuj Ahmed said:

    Whenever create an account than we should avoid such passwords……..

    [Reply]

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