Twitter has confirmed it will soon phase out the ability of users to secure their accounts via SMS - unless they pay for Twitter Blue.
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The app has begun sending out messages to that effect, stating that text-based two-factor authentication will only be available to Blue subscribers going forward after March 20. And, as part of that change, anyone who doesn’t subscribe to Blue before then will simply find that security setting disabled.“You must remove text message two-factor authentication,” reads the message that the company has begun sending out to users that this affects.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has pushed through a wave of cost-cutting measures since taking over the social media company. Image source: NetflixStill, putting a security feature behind a paywall for an advertising-supported service seems like among the least defensible changes in what’s been a chaotic first few months of Musk’s Twitter ownership. SocialProof Security CEO
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