Here’s how to secure your Twitter account without paying for Blue

Change your 2FA method by March 19th.

If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you might’ve seen a message prompting you to switch away from text message two-factor authentication . That’s because, which means you either have to pay $8 per month for Blue or switch to another authentication method — and I think most of us would choose the latter.

Fortunately, SMS 2FA isn’t the only way to secure your Twitter account, with other methods still available for free. The platform’s shutdown of the feature — at least for non-Blue subscribers — is actually a good reminder that we shouldn’t be using it in the first place., which usually happen when a bad actor uses social engineering or other access to get your mobile carrier to reassign your phone number to them.

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