You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised, It's Real
Keep your eyes peeled, Twitter users: Twitter is sending out emails to some of its users telling them it has reset their password and asking them to create a new one. If you can't log into your account that may be why.
Context & Ripple Effects
The reset emails land one day after Twitter's biggest traffic event of the year: more than 31 million election-related tweets on U.S. election day, November 6, 2012, for which the company had just bolstered its infrastructure — wait, that link is wrong; see related below.