Twitter Keeps Asking For A Password Change

[David H]

I've been asked by Twitter to change my password a couple of times a week for the last few weeks due to suspicious activity. Is this common and is there anything that can be done to track down the reason?

[Buenchico]

How are you being asked? Is it when your access your account or is it via (possibly scam) emails?
https://support.twitter.com/articles/204820#

[fiction-factory]

Ignore and delete the email- just go on twitter to see if there is a message.
The chances are the email is not genuine and won't even mention your name

[David H]

These are official. Twitter is replaced by an 'unusual activity' page and I have to request an email link which resets it till the next time. It's impossible to access my account without doing it so is definitely official. I was just told by a friend he gets the same thing as well recently so maybe it's a concerted attack.

[Buenchico]

Just a guess but . . .

. . . as I see it, the only way that Twitter's system can notice 'suspicious activity' is if tweets from the same user keep arriving from different IP addresses.

At one time tweets would only arrive from the IP address associated with a Twitter user's phone provider or, if he had his phone set to automatically connect to his wifi when at home, from the IP address of his home router.

These days many people have their phones configured to automatically connect to their work wifi and to the free wifi provided by Wetherspoon's, Tesco's, Sainsbury's, Barclays, Costa, Transport for London, National Rail and countless other providers. If a Twitter user keeps moving around (while sending tweets) his IP address will keep changing, possibly causing Twitter's system to see the activity as 'suspicious'.

Just a guess though!