Take a weekend off. Come back to work and find that your Twitter Account Password has been reset.
You get that fishy looking email:
Hey there.
Can’t remember your password, huh? It happens to the best of us.
Please click on the link below our copy and paste the URL into your browser:
http://twitter.com/account/password_reset?email=youremail@yourdomain.com&token=blahblahblah
This will reset your password. You can then login and change it to something you’ll remember.
The Twitter Team
Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. This message is a service email related to your use of Twitter. For general inquiries or to request support with your Twitter account, please visit us at Twitter Support.
Even though hovering over the link reveals a legitimate-looking url, you know better. So you go to Twitter.com and click the Forgot link.
Sigh. This is stupid. Obviously, one of the Twitter reciprocal following sites we explored last week accidentally (on purpose?) changed our password. How else were we able to start tweeting this nonsense?:
Oh, don’t bother trying to use the opt-out page, which you can reach from the Contact us link. Contrary to the claim, your login credentials on their database will not match what you used to sign in to their site!
Instead, just change your password and drop this stupid idea!!!
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