It’s a common on Twitter to see someone’s account get hacked and suddenly start tweeting a bunch of horse manure. For Twitter as a social networking platform, it is especially harmful since that is pretty much what the whole idea is about, to share stuff, whether it is plain text or links.

As a result of many accounts being hacked on Twitter due to careless password choices, the social media powerhouse decided to ban over 401 passwords (as of July, 2011) so that people would have to be a little more creative when setting up their accounts.

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To get a better understanding about this you can have a look at this this infographic brought to our attention by VeraCode.It highlights the security measures that have been overlooked by account owners when their stream has been hijacked.