Twitter says only "a handful" of the closures have been affected and are still recovering.

"As part of yesterday's response to protect the safety of our users, we have closed all accounts that have attempted to change their password in the last 30 days," Twitter said in a statement. "Lock" does not necessarily mean that "your account password has been compromised". Twitter believes that only a "small part" of the locked account was actually compromised. Twitter says it is getting back behind accessing funds "as soon as possible". "but it will take longer.