Feb 17 (Reuters) – Twitter stated on Friday it can permit solely paid subscribers to make use of textual content messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) technique to safe their accounts.
After March 20, “solely Twitter Blue subscribers will be capable of use textual content messages as their two-factor authentication technique,” the corporate tweeted.
Two-factor authentication, meant to make accounts safer, requires an account holder to make use of a second authentication technique along with a password. Twitter permits 2FA by textual content message, authentication app and a safety key.
The corporate believes phone-number-based 2FA is being abused by “dangerous actors,” in accordance with a Wednesday blog post that the corporate’s tweet linked to.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk tweeted “Yup” in reply to a consumer tweet that the corporate was altering coverage “as a result of Telcos Used Bot Accounts to Pump 2FA SMS,” and that the corporate was shedding $60 million a yr “on rip-off SMS.”
The blue test mark, beforehand free for verified accounts of politicians, well-known personalities, journalists and different public figures, is now open to anybody ready to pay.
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Final month, Twitter stated it might worth Twitter Blue subscription for Android at $11 per 30 days, the identical as for iOS subscribers.
Reporting by Shivani Tanna in Bengaluru; Modifying by William Mallard
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