So, I’m locked out of Twitter. Not their fault, but annoying nonetheless.

Here’s the cautionary tale: I got a Twitter email yesterday alerting me to some news, to which I responded with a brief thank-you note. I later learned my correspondent’s account had been compromised — the email had not really been from the person purported to have sent it. This got me thinking my own account might be compromised … a concern that was magnified by some other weirdness attendant to my gmail account. So I changed my passwords — or tried to. Because of a typo, I somehow managed to create a new Twitter account (which I promptly deactivated). But now, Twitter won’t let me change my password — it senses “suspicious activity,” which is no doubt the activity I’ve tried to take to protect myself from suspicious activity.

I’m trying to fix, but I haven’t been able to speak to an actual person, and their online program tells me they usually respond to requests for help within “a few days.” Sigh …