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Twitter to put text messages for sign-in security behind paywall

From next month, only users paying for Twitter will be able to use texts for two-factor authentication.

TWITTER IS REMOVING the ability to use text messages for two-factor authentication from all users except for paid monthly subscribers.

Only users who are paying for ‘Twitter Blue’, a subscription model born out of Elon Musk’s takeover, will be able to have a text sent to their phone to verify a sign-in attempt.

All other Twitter users have been told to remove text messages as their two-factor authentication method by 19 March to avoid losing access to the platform.

A notice to users today outlines: “Only Twitter Blue subscribers can use the text message two-factor authentication method. It’ll just take a few minutes to remove it.”

“You can still use the authentication app and security key methods. 

“To avoid losing access to Twitter, remove text message two-factor authentication by Mar 19, 2023.”

The notice attempts to direct users to a page on Twitter Help for more information, though an erroneous hashtag at the start of the link renders it unclickable. It can be accessed here.

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The page says that non-subscribers who have text message authentication enabled on 20 March “will be prompted to disable it before you can continue to use your account”. 

It notes that the availability of the text message option for Twitter Blue users may vary by country and phone carrier.

Two-factor authentication is a security measure used for a multitude of platforms and softwares that adds an additional barrier to logging in with the aim of ensuring only the real owner can use the account.

Two-factor authentication methods using text messages typically require the user to add their phone number to their account. When they sign in with their password, a text is sent to their phone with a code or link that must be used to successfully gain access.

Other methods available on Twitter are an authentication app or physical security key. 

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    Mute Good Early
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    Apr 26th 2016, 8:54 PM

    My mate’s a doctor in the south east. On more than one occasion he has dealt with men from Afghanistan and Pakistan and their multiple wives. One Afghani has been in 3 times in the past year with a different woman pregnant as his wife.
    The third girl the guy claimed was 18 but my mate wasnt so sure. So he called the HSE, Gardai and other services and no one wanted to assist.
    It’s happening here and is being brushed under the carpet. Polygamy is illegal in this country and our immigrant population need to be informed of this, and prosecuted to the fullest extent if they break the law.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:04 PM

    Another example of muslim asylum seekers and migrants cultures trumping irish state law.

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    Mute Original Cynic
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:05 PM

    What are statistics of Pakistani/Afghan men acknowledging illegitimate children (unheard of in their culture) – then claiming right to stay!

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    Mute Val Rossi
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:06 PM

    Yes but we don’t want to appear racist – so let’s just leave it there.

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    Mute bingo
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:08 PM

    Yes Good Early and do you know what else – Irish taxpayers are probably paying for the upkeep of him, his three wives and all his children! Wouldn’t it just give you the warm fuzzies!

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    Mute Good Early
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:18 PM

    I was thinking the same. They’re all in his medical card. I wonder if he can claim all of these wives as dependants with the Social.

    I wanted to highlight it here as this sh*t is going on in Ireland. Not very PC to highlighted in this country while condemning it another

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    Mute Mike Cantwell
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:28 PM

    You can put your house on it that nobody will do anything about this medieval carry on , where are all the bleeding hearts who love an ‘issue ‘ to fill their empty days or even a feminist will do to ‘raise concerns ‘ about the treatment of women by these yokes , the only thing we are sure about is that what we see across the water has arrived here and in a generation we will have our own Rotherham

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:33 PM

    Good early…its like child abuse and destruction of whistleblowers….the powers that be dont like the boat being rocked…

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:39 PM

    Mike…RT today forced nordic state govt spokespersons to admit they are permitting child marriages exist/take place in reception centres for muslim/african asylum seekers…does/will that be embraced here amongst the “new irish”? Or is it already?

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    Mute Original Cynic
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:52 PM

    Let’s call this what it is- Paedophilia!

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    Mute bingo
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:05 PM

    Good Early, You should tell your friend to go to a newspaper and give his story anonymously if needs be! It’s a disgrace and should be exposed.

    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-men-with-many-wives

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:14 PM

    Original….you and i agree…the multiculturalists among us would say its criminal and sick if you or i did it….but would say that for an african its cultural,thus acceptable.I look forward to the 1st such case exposed here.

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    Mute Matty Reese
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:24 PM

    All the bigots here on their high horses, the girl in the articles name is Maria. I wonder what religion she is from? And while this practice is despicable it is not limited to one ethnic group or religion. In Ireland not so long ago it was common practice to marry off teenage girls to old men (the quiet man is a a parody of this but it goes easy on the actual age difference).or else to put them on the emigrant boat. Such behaviour is commonly the result of extreme poverty and ignorance Anything for a rant a Johnny foreigner but just remember it i is only recent economic development with its attendant opportunties which have permitted your younger sister to avoid marrying 52 year Joe Mulvay with his 3 acres.

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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:35 PM

    Her name is given as “Maria”, note inverted commas, so real name most likely isn’t.

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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:48 PM

    Matty Matty Matty, I think you’ll find that “the traditional practice of ‘bog-lenga’ or ‘bonus woman’” is NOT a Christian practice – its one of their own African cultural practices. Also, it’s actually quite a considerably amount of time since teenage girls were married off to old men in Ireland. It’s like this Matty – you’re either against these practices or you’re not.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 11:02 PM

    Matty..scroll down..note that i exculpated these folk already on the grounds of poverty and lack of education…and further noted that Colm o Gorman is attendant on the case….thus as a social justice campaigner i have already intervened.

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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:02 AM

    Matty is a Gary Glitter fan! But he can’t bring the race card into the conversation if Garry the freak gets a good kicking

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    Apr 26th 2016, 8:36 PM

    That’s just fooooooked up shit right there. Poor children don’t stand a chance in life

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:10 PM

    Just noticed colm o gorman is on the case….he knows education and lots of money will make burkina faso better…

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    Mute Durty Divil
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    Apr 26th 2016, 8:45 PM

    Criminal.
    Also can we have more reports on the jump in child marriage in Europe and what its causes are please?
    Maybe an opinion piece from one of our college lecturers on how “culturally enriching” this kind of thing is?

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    Apr 26th 2016, 8:59 PM

    Its their culture..we must celebrate it…though they would be tough neighbours to get to know.id love to eavesdrop on a cultural relativist workshop as they work out how to sell the benefits of these practices to a host nation…

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    Mute Micheal Johnson
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:21 PM

    As yes, more Islam enriching our world, third article today by my count… doesn’t it make you feel warm and fuzzy!

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    Mute Matty Reese
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:25 PM

    her name is Maria

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    Mute Patrick Denny
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:33 PM

    No, her name is “Maria”. So her real name most likely isn’t.

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    Mute Micheal Johnson
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    Apr 27th 2016, 8:33 AM

    Yes, and taking more than one wife is forbidden in Christianity.

    So which do you think is more plausible? That the man having five wives is a spoof, or that they named to girl Maria and never mentioned Islam so people like you wouldn’t have to get that sickly feeling in your belly between the truth and not wanting to appear racist haha!

    Ps I think it’s a set up to spare your feelings ;)

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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:43 AM

    Plenty of Christian organisations practicing polygamy in the US and elsewhere.

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    Mute Micheal Johnson
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:07 AM

    Plenty, really? Name 5 if you could.

    It doesn’t really matter if you can name them or not, not one recognized Christian Church practices polygamy, not one Catholic, Protestant, Assyrian, Coptic, Orthodox or otherwise; in conjunction polygamy is not legal in “christian” countries either.

    So to compare that to Islam, where polygamy is scripturally permissible, accepted by each of the four Islamic schools of jurisprudence and is legal under CIVIL law in many Islamic countries, is a comparison so weak as to really make me doubt your knowledge on the subject.

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    Apr 26th 2016, 8:48 PM

    Sad I suppose…but what the hell has it to do with us?
    It’s Africa’s problem.
    One more in a long list.

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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:01 PM

    You are all Hart cal.

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    Mute Conor O'Neill
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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:11 PM

    Also a uk , Swedish problem . Etc . Actually now it’s a European prob

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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:13 PM

    Cal, You’re right – it is “Africa’s problem” and it is “one more in a long list” but it is still actually very sad and twisted – and it shouldn’t happen anywhere in the world!

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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:14 PM

    I would have chosen a different organ to describe Cal.

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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:59 PM

    Cal has no idea of history

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    Mute Cal McLaughlin
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    Apr 26th 2016, 10:21 PM

    Cerebral?

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    Mute Donal Carey
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    Apr 27th 2016, 9:33 AM

    The Muslims have made it clear they will take over Europe because they can have as many wife’s and children as they want that is why I would be very slow in giving anyone of them citizenship .

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    Apr 27th 2016, 7:50 AM

    Let the savages do what they want in their own countries but don’t be bringing it here. King George was right; abroad is bloody

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    Apr 26th 2016, 9:03 PM

    That’s what Jesus would have said Cal

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    Mute Michael Sands
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:50 PM

    Pedos?

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    Mute Dominic Kenneally
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    Apr 29th 2016, 1:09 AM

    Which god do they worship again? The pedophile one?

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