Pay up or switch
In its blog post, Twitter mentions abuse of the SMS 2FA system by"bad actors" as one of the reasons behind the switch. From, it also seems that Twitter was losing a substantial amount of money from bot accounts abusing the SMS 2FA method.
Now if you want to stick with SMS to set up Twitter on new devices, you'll need to pay for the privilege. Twitter Blue costs $8 a month, or $11 a month if you sign up through Android or iOS, and it's also available for a whole year for $84. Amongst other perks, you can edit tweets and undo the posting of tweets.
): it adds an extra level of protection that means something else is required to log into your account on unknown devices, besides a username and password . That"something else" can be a text message sent to your phone, but at this stage SMS is the weakest option for 2FA. Text messages can be intercepted and redirected, and it's a much better idea to install a free app on your phone to generate an authentication code instead – among the ones available are
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