Twitter has hard-coded all banned passwords on the sign-up page. All you need to do to retrieve the full list of unwelcome passwords is take a look at the source code of that page.
Do a simple search for 'twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS' and voilà, there they are, all 370 of them.
Along with, names of famous cars such as "porsche" and "ferrari", and football teams like "Chelsea" and "Arsenal" are also banned.
"THX1138" -- title of the first film by Star Wars fame director George Lucas, is banned. So is "NCC1701" -- the registry number of Star Trek's starship Enterprise -- and "trustno1", Fox Mulder's password in The X-Files, the report said.
This isn't a security issue, of course, and in fact it's helpful to distribute the list so you can check if your favorite password that you use for other services might not be as fail-proof as you'd like to think. For the full list, simply check this TXT file.
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