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On Wednesday, Twitter unveiled a new two-factor authentication method for Android and iOS that allows you to authorize login requests to your Twitter account with just one tap, banishing the usual method of manually inputting security codes generated via an app or sent via text method. Just open up the Twitter app on your smartphone or tablet, authorize the login with one finger press, and you're done.
Sounds great, right? There's only one problem: It simply didn't work in my tests, or my editor's—and Twitter's two-factor failure doesn't appear to be limited to our experience, either.
Nevertheless, even while Twitter works out the kinks for its (admittedly cool) two-factor authentication system, the new security measure is still worth setting up right now. Read on and we'll explain why.
How to get started
The journey to (theoretically) better security starts on the "Me" tab of the Twitter app.
You can only have two-factor authentication set-up on one smartphone or tablet, so you have to decide which of your devices you have around with you most often. For most of us, this will be our smartphone.
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