What You Need to Do to Set Up Free App-Based Two Factor Authentication on Twitter?
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You do not require to pay any money or buy a monthly subscription of Twitter only to secure your account.
Twitter has said that it will soon stop supporting SMS based 2-factor authentication (2FA) for users who are not subscribed to Twitter Blue. Users will have to last date of March 20th to disable text-based login authentication codes in their accounts, according to the micro-blogging services. This means that the several users who reply on receiving SMS codes to protect their account will have to subscribe to Twitter Blue compulsory. For those who don't want to subscribe the Twitter Blue, Then the Twitter will continue to support alternative 2FA methods at no extra cost.
Twitter's website also notes that access to SMS-based 2FA for Twitter Blue subscribers this says that "May vary by country and carrier" even though the micro-blogging service indicates that the phone-number mechanism was misused by "bad actors" on the bases for its termination of free access to SMS-based 2FA.
You can choose a more secure alternative to safeguard your account by authentication applications if you don't want to pay Twitter an extra monthly price to use SMS-based two-factor authentication to protect your account (Twitter Blue costs the people till Rs. 900 per month in India). Before completing the procedures below, you may download applications like Authy, Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, and our choice, the open-source Aegis Authenticator.
How to enable app-based 2nd step-factor authentication using the third-party apps applications. Follow these steps:
- Go to settings page on Twitter website.
- To enable two-factor authentication, select Security and account access > Security.
- If your account has the Text message option activated, turn it off.
- Select the Authentication app now and click on "Get started."
- Scan the QR code seen on the Twitter website using the authentication app you downloaded.
- To complete the setting procedure, enter the six-digit numeric code shown on your authentication app.
