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Re:Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication by andrewfromx on Saturday February 18, 2023 @06:16PM (#34852140)
my favorite way around this is command line:

oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'

same as any authenticator app but you don't have to take out your phone.

On a mac it's brew install oath-toolkit to get this oathtool executable.

Then I alias in .zshrc like:

alias auth_twitter="oathtool --totp -b 'someCode'"

and backup my whole .zshrc file with all the codes.

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Re:Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication by hunglee2 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @07:03PM (#34852511)
turns out this was just a brokey move by Elon to reduce the telco cost, yet his preservation of SMS for blue ticks made it a predictable PR disaster
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Re:Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication by more_corn on Saturday February 18, 2023 @08:16PM (#34853039)
Nobody should be using text 2fa anyway. It’s being actively subverted by bad actors.

Same for Twitter;-)

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Re:Twitter to charge users for SMS two-factor authentication by telis on Sunday February 19, 2023 @07:06PM (#34863301)
Bigger picture here is to disincentivise bad practice of SMS 2FA.

A good move - regardless if you care about what Elon is about or not.

Media turned on him pretty quickly and it causes a lot of noise in the background distracting from the achievements.

Follow the science :)

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