Twitter “Cock Up” Locks Users Out Of Accounts

TwitterCurrently, 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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