Change your Twitter two-factor authentication—now.
its default two-step verification process to use on-device prompts—that is, pop-up notifications that appear on devices where the user was already signed into their Google account—instead of SMS messages or voice calls.
But there are some pretty significant differences between what Google did two and a half years ago and what Twitter is proposing to do now. For one, while Google changed the default two-factor log-in mode for users, it did not eliminate SMS-based authentication, so users who were unable to use on-device prompts were still able to protect their accounts with two-factor authentication. More importantly, Google did not disable two-factor authentication for any accounts as part of its policy change.
$150 million by the Federal Trade Commission for using the phone numbers that its users provided for 2FA to target them with ads.But instead of encouraging more users to enroll in 2FA, or even trying to prompt them to use more secure forms of 2FA like smartphone apps or security keys, Twitter’s new policy seems designed to try to extract some money from the less than 2 percent of its users who use SMS-based 2FA.
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