Why You Should Listen to Twitter on Two-Factor Authentication
Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account.
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Elon Musk was right: Text messages are not the most secure way to protect your account.
Twitter users still have two other options to enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. Twitter users without a Blue subscription could be at risk soon.
Once Twitter shuts off free access to its API, thousands of apps, research projects, bots and other services will stop functioning.
This makes Twitter the first company to block virtual phone numbers from SMS authentication. Twitter reportedly blocked users from using Google Voice numbers for SMS two-factor authentication.
Google Voice numbers appear to no longer work for SMS authentication on the social platform..