The UX is confusing at this point, after adding my number, I got an SMS with a 6 digit verification code (and short t.co URL to continue verification), but no place in the page to enter it! In fact, I was asked to remove the phone number at this point: This is the part where I initially gave up, but it turned out that clicking Add phone takes you to the mobile twitter page (in your phone’s browser), where you can enter your phone number, and in my case twitter accepted it, and sent me a verification SMS! What! I am still being asked to add a phone number! Go to Settings, your twitter username, then press Security: Let’s try enabling login verifications on my (Android) twitter app. OK, so I can’t add a phone number on the twitter website. Pressing the add a phone link takes you to a page where you can enter your phone number (after selecting your country and carrier), however in my case, I got this message after submitting: Notice that both Send options are disabled. If no phone number is associated, you will see these options: Here’s how it supposed to work: you go to the Security and privacy settings in your twitter account.
The latter, turns out also requires your phone number! So what is the problem exactly? In order to enable login verifications on Twitter, turns out, you need to either associate your mobile phone number with twitter, or enable sending login verifications to your iOS or Android twitter app. Per, turns out, was interested in this problem because of another matter, that Twitter seemingly turned off login verification for people who do not have their phone numbers associated with Twitter! Per wrote about his own experiences trying to enable 2FA on twitter here. One such rant between (who co-runs ) and myself regarding enabling Two Factor Authentication (2FA, or login verification) on twitter being unavailable for people in Israel, caught the attention of Per Thorsheim, an independent security consultant and founder of the Passwords conference. It’s funny how a random twitter rant can yield valid solutions.
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