Twitter Adds New Security Measures for High-Profile Election-Related Accounts

They include stronger passwords and password reset protection

Twitter continues to take steps to fortify its platform with November’s U.S. presidential election in mind, and its latest security addition is aimed at high-profile, election-related accounts.

The social network said the types of accounts impacted by the new security measures are:

  • Executive Branch
  • Congress
  • Governors
  • Secretaries of state
  • Presidential campaigns
  • Political parties
  • Candidates with election labels running for the House of Representatives, the Senate or governor
  • Major U.S. news outlets and political journalists

Those accounts will be alerted to the updates via in-application notifications.

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