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Twitter starting Monday will place its text message-based two-factor authentication behind Blue paywall. Announced in February, Twitter at the time said the step to change the policy was taken as the company believed phone-number-based 2FA was being abused by “bad actors”. Twitter owner Elon Musk also tweeted “Yup” in reply to a user tweet that the company was changing policy …
Twitter chief executive Elon Musk late Saturday night said the use of free authentication apps for two-factor authentication will remain free. This comes after the social media giant's users were served an ultimatum from the app to either subscribe to the platform's new premium service or lose the ability to secure their accounts via 2FA. Musk's announcement prompted a reply …