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Re:Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication by theg2 on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @05:33PM (#6175809)
I know Twitter did this (primarily) in response to the AP hacking, but I fail to see how this change is going to help organizations (say...news) with multiple people sharing an account for business purposes.

We want to secure with 2 factor here in our offices, but it involves giving 10 people the app and possibly getting spammed every time someone logs in. I realize they went for this approach rather than have your average user type in numbers but I can't help but feel confused by this move.

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Re:Thoughts on Twitter's new Two-Factor Authentication by snowwrestler on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @08:49PM (#6176689)
It is astounding to me how many companies who clearly want, welcome, and benefit from organizational users, fail to provide admin experience that works for organizations.

Why doesn't Twitter (and YouTube, also a terrible offender), simply allow multiple accounts to manage a corporate channel? Like Facebook does with Pages, or Google Analytics with profiles?

Instead we have to either share a single password among multiple people (not secure) or use third party apps like HootSuite (and now your security totally depends on that app, not Twitter).

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