Twitter “Cock Up” Locks Users Out Of Accounts

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Currently, popular social networking website Twitter, seems to be finding it near on impossible to stay out of the news at the moment – for all the wrong reasons.

Earlier this week, DPS Computing reported how a well known security employee of firm F-Secure was sensationally booted off the website (before being reinstanted) for attempting to warn its users about a phising website.

Now Twitter has once again come under fire as users have found that the seemingly innocent process of changing ones username, e-mail address or password has resulted in them being locked out of their accounts.  This has caught out both experienced users and newbies alike.

Does Twitter have a solution?  It would appear not as the firms current advice is “Don’t do it” – referring to the process of changing a username, e-mail address or password.

The problem has now persisted for a week according to early reports of the problem acknowledged by the social networking site who at first suggested that users were at fault due to a cacheing issue.

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