Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication

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Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication

Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication

Mashable

Published 18 Feb 2023

To non-Twitter Blue subscribers, those users now have 30 days to get on the Blue train or risk having their SMS two-factor authentication turned off. The new policy from Twitter and CEO Elon Musk was alluded to in a tweet by Platformer’s Zoe Schiffer early Friday afternoon.

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