Twitter has shut down performance which allowed customers to textual content SMS messages to ship a tweet. The transfer comes after CEO Jac Dorsey’s account was attacked final week and used as a platform to unfold racist and white nationalist sentiment. The agency introduced the transfer this week as one of many countermeasures it was taking to guard accounts. It is price noting that this had been identified by safety companies earlier than, however the social community solely appeared to take discover after private embarrassment was precipitated to its CEO.
We’re taking this step due to vulnerabilities that have to be addressed by cellular carriers and our reliance on having a linked telephone quantity for two-factor authentication (we’re engaged on bettering this).
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 4, 2019
While Twitter has shut it down in nearly all markets, the agency has reenabled the characteristic for markets which depend on it, nevertheless. Perhaps resulting from gradual web speeds or low 4G proliferation. As the saying goes, you might be solely as sturdy as your weakest hyperlink, and Twitter hopes to harden this hyperlink so long as it will probably.
We’ve now turned this characteristic again on for just a few places that depend upon SMS to Tweet. It stays turned off for the remainder of the world.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 5, 2019
