With fast-food chain Burger King and Chrysler-owned automaker Jeep having reported that their Twitter accounts were hacked this week, the popular microblogging site is requesting the users to be smarter when it comes to selecting passwords for their Twitter accounts.

Twitter's call for smarter password habits on the part of its users comes close on the heels of the reports of recent hacking attacks which took control of the Twitter accounts of Burger King and Jeep.

It was on Monday and Tuesday respectively that hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of Burger King and Jeep; and posted tweets about untrue takeovers and discomforting pictures to both the companies' Twitter feeds.

Even though the accounts for both Burger King and Jeep have now been restored, Twitter - without making any specific mention of the two hacks - suggested in a Tuesday afternoon blog post that account breaches are often a result of the users' poor password practices.

Noting that the last few days had witnessed "a fair amount of conversation about account security on Twitter," Bob Lord - director of information security at Twitter - said in the post: "We thought we'd take advantage of this moment to remind you of best practices around passwords -- both on Twitter and on the Internet generally."