Twitter Tells Lawmakers to Improve Passwords Before Election

Twitter Inc. will ask U.S. lawmakers and White House officials, including President Donald Trump, to review and improve their account passwords as part of a push to increase security before the Nov. 3 election.

Twitter said it will send a push notification to every member of Congress, officials running for office, U.S. governors, secretaries of state and some U.S. news outlets and political journalists. The alert will ask these people to turn on two-factor authentication and review their password. If Twitter deems a password too weak, the company will require a stronger one the next time users log in, according to a blog post on Thursday.