Twitter's two-factor move is the latest in a series of controversial policy changes since Elon Musk acquired the company last year.
that as of March 20, it will only allow its users to secure their accounts with SMS-basedif they pay for a Twitter Blue subscription. Two-factor authentication, or 2FA, requires users to log in with a username and password and then an additional “factor” like a numeric code. Security experts have long advised that people use a generator app to get these codes.
published yesterday evening. “So starting today, we will no longer allow accounts to enroll in the text message/SMS method of 2FA unless they are Twitter Blue subscribers.”, Twitter said that only 2.6 percent of its active users have any type of two-factor authentication enabled. Of those users, nearly 75 percent were using the SMS version. Almost 29 percent were using authenticator apps and less than 1 percent had added a physical authentication key.
While the company says its changes to two-factor will roll out in mid-March, Twitter users with SMS two-factor turned on started encountering a pop-up overlay screen yesterday that advised them to remove two-factor entirely or switch to “the authentication app or security key methods.”
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