LOS ANGELES — Twitter users were greeted early Saturday with an ultimatum from the social media app: Subscribe to the platform’s new premium service or lose a popular account security feature.
The message said that starting March 19, users who don’t subscribe will be locked out of their accounts until they remove the security feature. Such codes can be generated by apps like Microsoft MSFT Authenticator or Alphabet’s GOOG GOOGL Google Authenticator. Or they can be sent to a user’s smartphone via text message.
Elon Musk, who completed his $44 billion takeover of Twitter in October, has been trying to find way to maximize profits at the company.
elonmusk FYI
Why not hire someone to manage your comments section. Too many bots here.
Good for those who use their phone to log on right? But what about those who use computers and how does it stop people from outside hacking a password and entering?
The adverts are just too much! 😠😠😠😠😠
'Great! Now I just need to figure out how to pay my rent without spending any money.'
Boycott Tesla
I don’t care. Let us all get hacked and turn twitter into (more) chaos and confusion. Break out the popcorn.
Maybe… How to keep your account more secure
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