Twitter users are having a field day, in general, with World Password Day, as you'll see in a minute.
But on the afternoon of May 3, 2018, users starting seeing notices from Twitter pop up in their timelines:
Twitter's very low key blog post casually suggests that users change their passwords since the company's standard practice of masking passwords (through hashing) failed. And the company decided to tell on itself.
"We found this error ourselves, removed the passwords, and are implementing plans to prevent this bug from happening again."
Some on Twitter had ideas for why the "bug" was discovered—GDPR perhaps?
Twitter's revelation comes just a week or so after Github revealed the same thing in almost identical wording. Interesting.
Twitter users have fun with World Password Day
Twitter's announcement added to the password talk. Here are some of the other funny tweets about Password Day—along with a few serious ideas.