I’m with you, despite seeing lemmings downvote the heck out of your comment 😢

The reason, and specifically for whitespace at the beginning or end of a password, is that a lot of users copy-paste their passwords into the form, and for various reasons, whitespace can get pasted in, causing an invalid match. No bueno.

Source: I’m a web developer who has seen this enough times that we had to implement a whitespace-trim validation for both setting & entering passwords.

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Lots of places do this now, unfortunately.

• Striga Strudel
• Fleder Focaccia
• Bruxa Borscht

Nom nom nom!

Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.

I don’t know, I think there’s room for appropriate change here;

• Twater
• Twit’er
• Twixlers

I admit, my suggestions could use more help, but surely we must admit they’ve devolved from Twitter!?