Speaking of passwords, I thought it would be fun to share this little bit of trivia: last year TechCrunch amused everyone by publishing the list of 370 words banned by Twitter for use as a password.

You can actually find them yourself by checking the source code on Twitter’s sign up page if you are so adventurous.  (Go to Twitter’s sign up page here and do a search in their source code for ‘twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS’).

We found them all on Business Insider’s website and you can view the entire list here.

Some are obvious: repetitive numbers “111111″ or “123456″, or names like “amanda” or “einstein” all of which violate the rules laid out in the prior post, Finding the Right Password.

Others are fairly amusing, for example you can’t use “twitter” as your Twitter password. Nor can you use “computer” or varying progressions of “password”, “password1″, “password12″, well….you get the point.

Other banned words are curious: you can’t use “turtle” as a password, but apparently “whale” would be acceptable (if it was available).

So have fun with the list and happy Twittering….