Four hours ago, Platformer's Zoe Schiffer wrote on Twitter: Twitter will start charging for SMS authentication two factors.
And yes it is official: You will have to pay for the privilege of using Twitter authentication. In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month at Android, 11 $ το μήνα στο iOS) ή δεν αλλάξετε τον λογαριασμό σας για να χρησιμοποιήσετε μια πολύ πιο αξιόπιστη εφαρμογή ελέγχου ταυτότητας ή ένα κλειδί security, Twitter will simply disable 2FA after March 20th.
Getting rid of SMS isn't a bad thing, as SIM swap hacks give and take these days. Twitter's Jack Dorsey was the target of this technique four years ago. You don't want someone accessing your accounts pretending to be you just because they stole your phone number.
This is, of course, how Twitter is trying to justify this change, but surely there is a simpler reason: sending SMS messages costs money money and Twitter continues to make cuts. THE company had phased out SMS even before Elon Musk took over.
Meantime as reported by Rachel Tobac, Twitter transparency data shows that as of December 2021, only 2,6 percent of Twitter users use 2FA, and 74 percent of those users used SMS as their method of sending 2FA codes.
