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Twitter will improve security with two-step verification

Jonathan Riggall

Jonathan Riggall

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Twitter is rolling out two-step verification, giving you an extra level of security which should help to stop accounts getting broken into, according to a report by Wired.

Whether it’s the Associated Press getting hacked and sending tweets that send stock markets crashing, or BlackBerry’s Alicia Keys tweeting from an iPhone and claiming she was hacked, Twitter clearly has a security problem.

Two-step verification adds security to your password, which is all too often guessable. Every time you log in to a service on a new device, a code is sent to another device or account, which you have to enter with your password. With games service Steam, for example, you must have your steam password and access to your email account to sign in on a new computer. Other two-step systems send a code via SMS to your phone.

This would make celebrity accounts harder to hack, and inappropriate tweets harder to excuse. It might be a problem for corporate feeds which are used by many people, as they would all need access to the secondary account or devices.

Two-step verification is coming to users incrementally, so don’t expect to see it immediately. We’ll have a full guide to two step verification later today.

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