While it’s frustrating that Twitter is ditching SMS two-factor authentication, the reality is that using a dedicated authenticator app is far more secure anyway. Our recommendation is to proceed with the second option listed above. Switch to another form of two-factor authentication, using an app/service like iCloud Keychain, 1Password, Google Authenticator, or Authy.Do nothing: Twitter will automatically disable two-factor on your account tomorrow.If you rely on text messages for two-factor authentication via Twitter, you have three options: At that time, accounts with text message 2FA still enabled will have it disabled. After 20 March 2023, we will no longer permit non-Twitter Blue subscribers to use text messages as a 2FA method. Non-Twitter Blue subscribers that are already enrolled will have 30 days to disable this method and enroll in another. This means that a whole bunch of accounts are about to become less secure tomorrow, unless users proactively switch to another method of 2FA (or pay $8 per month for Twitter Blue). Starting tomorrow, Twitter will completely disable two-factor authentication on accounts that use 2FA via text messages, but don’t pay for Twitter Blue. That change is set to officially go into effect tomorrow, March 20, making today the last day to move away from SMS two-factor authentication. Last month, Twitter announced that it would start charging a fee for the use of SMS messages for two-factor authentication.
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