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Twitter allows third-party apps for comment verification
- Updated: December 22, 2017
Adding an additional covering of security, Twitter has announced to let a over 300 million users implement third-party apps for two-factor authentication to determine their accounts
Adding an additional covering of security, Twitter has announced to let a over 300 million users implement third-party apps for two-factor authentication to determine their accounts. As an choice to SMS, we can now use a third-party authenticator app such as Google Authenticator, Duo Mobile, Authy or identical commissioned on your mobile device.
“You’ll now be means to use a third celebration app for two-factor authentication instead of SMS content messages.” Twitter pronounced on Thursday. These third-party apps work exclusively and beget codes offline to assistance we use a two-factor authentication.
Twitter, however, pronounced it will still send on SMS as two-factor authentication though has now authorised third-party apps as an alternative. The micro-blogging site has given a step-by-step instruction on how to use a third-party apps.
According to The Verge, this is an critical pierce since SMS-based two-factor authentication uses immobile codes. “That means those codes could be intercepted in a eventuality a hacker or some other antagonistic third-party has entrance to one or some-more choice ways of observation messages on a device other than carrying earthy entrance to it,” it added.
With third-party apps like Google Authenticator, a codes disappear in about 30 seconds, creation it a some-more secure approach to determine your brand and entrance your account.