What to do when twitter locks your account

Twitter does some crazy things when we forget our login password.

So, let's have a look into what to do when you twitter locks your account..

What to do when twitter locks your account

It locks user account if tried too many failed password attempts for 30 minutes or in some cases 1hr too.
 Twitter does not want to provide access to the hackers to crack passwords, so it temporarily disable the user account for security reason.

At some time point of time you may remember password after many attempts. Try login with the password if it is still not allowing to access your account you need to check any third party apps such as Hoot suite. In some cases these apps will contact again and again to twitter account which can also be a problem that you are not able to login to your account.

Let’s say you really forgot your password, it is not at all coming to your mind, twitter has an option called reset password. Click on that and request for a new password from twitter. Which will sent you reset message to your registered email id. If you can’t find out the mail from twitter in your inbox try searching in spam folder.

It shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to receive the confirmation email.



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