Starting today, if you want to use Twitter’s two-step authentication via SMS, you’ll have to subscribe to Twitter Blue… but that doesn’t mean you’re left without a double barrier to access your account, as the team explains from the social network, you can continue using a two-factor authentication code application, such as Google Authenticator. If you use Twitter for free and have no intention of making the jump to Twitter Bluedon’t worry: you have 30 days to change your authentication settings and in this tutorial we show you how to do it step by step.
First of all, a quick introduction: Google Authenticator is a simple application whose mission is to display a six-digit numeric code that varies every 30 seconds. It will be precisely that code that you will have to use to verify your identity when logging in.
How to switch from two-step authentication to Google Authenticator
Go ahead, although in this case we are going to do the tutorial with Twitter, you can apply it for other services such as the Google account (of course!), Facebook, Amazon and Hotmail.
The first thing is to have Google Authenticator installed on your phone, available for both Android and iOS. Enter the application and you will see that you can configure your first account to apply this double factor method in two ways: with a setup key or with a QR code. You already have the first part.
First of all and following the recommendation of Twitter, we enter our profile of the bird’s social network. If you’re on the phone, go to “Configuration and support“, but if you access from your PC’s browser then you will first have to go through “More options“to see that”Configuration and support“. From here the path is common. There it enters “Settings and privacy“. Once inside, click on the menu “Security and account access“and there in”Security“.
You’ll see at last”Two-factor authentication“. Press. Three options will appear: “Text Message”, “Authentication App” and “Security Key”. The first option is the one that becomes paid, but the one we are interested in now is “Authentication App”. What happens if I don’t do any of this? Remember that according to the new Twitter regulations, if you had two-factor authentication with SMS activated and you are not from Twitter Blue, it will be disabled as of March 20.
Check the option of “Authentication App”. Then it will ask you for the password of your account. Now a QR code will appear: yes, it is the one that you have to scan from the Google Authenticator application that we had previously installed on the mobile.
If you couldn’t scan the code (for example, because you are also operating on Twitter from your mobile, tap on “Can’t scan the QR code?” to get a key to do exactly the same.
Either with the QR or with the key, in Google Authenticator a six-digit code and a graphic of a clock will appear: that is the one that you have to enter in Twitter (or in the application that you would like to protect). Once this step is successfully completed, You already have Twitter configured with two-step authentication with Google Authenticator.
From now on, all you have to do to log in to Twitter is, in addition to entering your credentials in the application, enter Google Authenticator and take the number that it will generate for Twitter (if you have other services, more will appear, but each one will be correctly identified) and copy it on Twitter. If you don’t have time, wait for the next round of numbers.
Important: At the end of setup, you’ll be presented with a one-time backup code that you need to save in order to sign in to Twitter if you can’t receive a text message or don’t have access to your authentication methods.
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