Twitter to disable SMS 2FA for free customers

You're not safe and you'll pay for the privilege

Tom Allen
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Twitter to disable SMS 2FA for free customers

Twitter has announced plans to kill off SMS-based two-factor authentication for everyone - except its paying Twitter Blue subscribers.

After 20th March, only those paying $8 a month for the privilege of a blue tick next to their name will be able to authenticate their Twitter logins via text message. Twitter is, however, retain...

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