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Elon Musk bought Twitter last October.
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Twitter has more than 350 million active monthly users.
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In 2022, the social network had a significant loss of employees from January to November.
Elon Musk does it again and generates controversy for a new update on the social network Twitter, according to the businessman, for subscribers who are not Twitter Blue users, they will have 30 days to subscribe or risk having their authentication deactivated two factors by SMS, which to reactivate there will be a charge of between 8 and 11 dollars.
After months of controversy, Elon Musk completed the purchase of Twitter in November 2022, for the amount of 44 billion dollars, this marked a before and after within the social network, since new reforms came to the platform.
Twitter It is one of the main social networks on the internet and one of the ones that has generated the most controversy. During 2022, much was said about it due to its purchase by the businessman Elon Musk; from that moment began the platform updates and reforms, one of them would be the new charge for two-step authentication.
The entrepreneur has adopted updates so that both users and brands buy services within the social network, according to information revealed by the social network, the number of monetizable daily active users (mDAU) of Twitter in the United States It has gradually increased throughout 2021 and 2022, reaching the barrier of 41 million during the second quarter of that last year. Internationally, that is, outside the US, the number of mDAUs in the same quarter of 2022 was around 200 million. Daily active users potentially receiving advertising are called mDAU.
Elon Musk announces new Twitter authentication fee
Twitter add a new charge to your platformthis according to an updated blog post on the website of Twitter; in the post reports, while SMS is a popular way to authenticate your account, it can be easily abused. Therefore, the platform locks the privilege of using its worst form of authentication behind a $8-$11 subscription for iOS users. The site then suggests that non-Twitter Blue subscribers “consider using an authenticator app or security key method instead.” So it’s either that or wait until Twitter shuts it down on March 20.
Effective March 20, 2023, only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method. Other accounts can use an authentication app or security key for 2FA. Learn more here:https://t.co/wnT9Vuwh5n
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 18, 2023
So what does it mean? This means that the security method that used to use text messages to access an account will no longer be free to use and will only be available to Twitter Blue subscribers, which is also not available in all countries; The social network justified this mediation by arguing that “bad actors” would have abused this function, so the authentication and payment thereof will not be allowed for users who do not belong to Twitter Blue.
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