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Password length rules are enforced at form submission time, before the account is opened - whereas the twitter post says the account was opened, then permaclosed.

If that's their password length checker, they've got the maddest password length check design I've ever heard of.




That's not what the Twitter post says, at all.

> Recently, I decided to change the password.

and in a subsequent tweet:

> Within 45 SECONDS of me changing the password, my WeChat account was permanently closed.

Nearly instant, likely automated based on that timeline, and immediately after a "change password" form submission.




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