Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Start Charging You to Verify Logins Using Text Messages
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Here is Elon Musk’s latest cash-generating idea for Twitter: Next month, the service will restrict access to the simplest form of two-factor authentication — which provides a second layer of security to confirm a user’s login credentials — to Twitter Blue subscribers.
Twitter on Friday announced that as of March 20, 2023, only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messaging as their two-factor authentication method to verify their username and password when they log in to a new device.
Non-subscribers will still be able to enable two-factor authentication (or 2FA in tech lingo) using either an authentication app like Google Authenticator or a physical security key.
If you have text messaging enabled for two-factor authentication on Twitter, and you’re not paying for Twitter Blue, Twitter says on March 20 it will disable the security feature on your account (unless you have switched to another form of 2FA).
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