Earlier this week, Twitter unleashed a significant update to their iOS app, bringing two-step verification – an important security measure to prevent unauthorized access – to their iOS app. Previously, Twitter’s two-step verification required SMS messaging, but the in-app solution provides a much simpler and more effective alternative.
Here’s how to set it up (from the official Twitter blog)
To get started
- From the Me tab in the Twitter application, open Settings and then tap Security (Android users: you’ll need to tap your name before you can select Security)
- Turn on Login verification
- Store the generated backup code in a safe place. You will need to use this code if you need to access your account when you don’t have your phone.
- After you enroll in login verification, you’ll use the Twitter application to approve requests each time you sign in to twitter.com with your username and password.
After you’ve enabled login verification, you can manage login requests and access your backup codes on Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android. For more information or if you have any questions, make sure to visit our Help Center. If you’re interested in the technical details behind the design of this feature, check out this post on our engineering blog. We’ll continue to work on authentication improvements to make it useful to more people, including those who share a single account.
It pretty much goes without saying these days, with security becoming an ever-present concern for all of the increasingly numerous internet accounts we all have. It’s great to see Twitter fully embracing this (in multiple ways) for all of their users.
