Warning for Twitter users to change key setting or ‘lose access to your account’

Posted on : February 21, 2023
Warning for Twitter users to change key setting or ‘lose access to your account’

Twitter users have less than a month to deactivate a critical security setting—or lose

This week, Twitter users began receiving a notification stating: 'you must remove text message two-factor authentication. Only Twitter Blue subscribers can use the text message two-factor authentication method'.

It adds: "To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023."

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Two-factor authentication uses text messages to add an extra layer of security when you log into your account, but Elon Musk wants to restrict the feature to paying Twitter Blue subscribers.

One Twitter Blue user, Josh Gondelman, complained: "I get that Elon wants to make this app worse for users, but why do we have to do it ourselves?? If you don't want me to have two-factor authentication, YOU remove it."

Another user, Tom Taylor, posted: "Wait. My account will be made easier to hack unless I pay? Removing two-factor authentication unless I give them money feels awfully extortiony."

Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter's text-based two-factor authentication has been 'used and abused by bad actors', and that it is costing the firm $60m USD per year.

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To disable text-based two-factor authentication on Twitter, you just have to follow some easy steps.

Open the Twitter app on your phone or go to the platform's website on your browser.

Launch the Settings menu by clicking the icon shaped like a gear, then click Security and account access > Security.

Now, just tap two-factor authentication and uncheck the box next to SMS / text-based authentication method.

You'll no longer require a text message code to log into your account, and preserve your access.

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