Here is Elon Musk’s latest cash-generating idea for Twitter, or at least an attempt to incrementally reduce operating expenses: Next month, the service will restrict access to the simplest fo…
, or at least an attempt to incrementally reduce operating expenses: 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.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.
Note that Twitter doesn’t require anyone to use two-factor authentication, but it recommends the security step in order to make it harder for someone to hack into your account. “While historically a popular form of 2FA, unfortunately we have seen phone-number based 2FA be used — and abused — by bad actors,” Twitter said in an article on its support site. to swing the $44 billion takeover of the social network. Note also that Twitter incurs some cost for sending out 2FA verifications via SMS, which may be another reason it’s moving the feature behind a paywall.
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