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Twitter has agreed to adopt new security measures that will settle its privacy case with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The FTC said that the micro-blogging site will now enforce best practice for password selection and control, and submit to regular audits of its security controls.
Twitter will be required to adopt unique non-dictionary passwords not used with other accounts or stored within unencrypted email messages.
The company must also swap out passwords regularly, and protect its administrative controls through a unique log-in page that locks an account after a certain number of failed log-in attempts.
Additionally, Twitter will be required to adjust its notifications to users in order to avoid misleading them about the company’s privacy protections.
Twitter general counsel Andrew Macgillivray said in a blog post that the company had already adopted a number of the stipulations in the settlement.
