Twitter is turning text-based two-factor authentication a paid feature

Twitter users will soon need to subscribe to the platform’s paid version, Twitter Blue, in order to use text based two-factor authentication.

In its announcement of the new feature, Twitter justified the decision by claiming “phone-number based 2FA be used — and abused — by bad actors.”

The new change would effectively make text based two factor authentication a paid service, despite being a basic security feature offered for free on many platforms.