Awww, Twitter Misses Me

I just got email from Twitter telling me that I could use their handy-dandy link (included) to change my password to something that I could remember.

Well, I have a set of a dozen passwords that I use in different areas of the web, and I know which one I was using on Twitter, so I went to Twitter for the first time in months and logged on. The password worked perfectly (except that the first time I tried it, I got the cutesy page of a bunch of birds air-hoisting a whale telling me that Twitter was overloaded).

So Twitter just assumed that, because I hadn't logged in for a while, I must have forgotten my password.

I briefly examined the tweets of the few people that I follow, and confirmed that I had seen all of them in other venues.

So I logged off.

For the 17 people following me: no, there is nothing broken. I made some kind of introductory tweet when I was first "invited" on, found the whole thing to be of no use to me, and haven't used it since.

But now I know that the service will remind me on a periodic basis to confirm my password.