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How to Secure Your Twitter Account
Hey everyone. In today's Twitter video, I'm going to show you how to secure your Twitter account. This is highly recommended and he will reduce the chances of your Twitter account. Getting hacked. I'll show you on this Twitter app first, and then I'll show you on twitter.com just in case you use it on the computer.
On the homepage of the Twitter app. So I simply open the Twitter app here. I just need to click my profile icon on the top left of the page and then it's going to bring me to this page where I could go to setting and privacy. I'll click that next and on this page, I want to go to the account tab. The first one on top.
You could do a couple of things. The first thing is you could change your password. If you think your account is compromised. So to do that, you just press the password and change it. But I really want to show you the option there. In the Security tab, click security, and here. We want to turn on two-factor authentication and we want to make sure password reset, protection is also checked on. So I have that checked on already. So I'll go to two-factor authentication and here I need to turn it on and you have three different ways to do that. I think one of the easiest ones is just using text messages. So I'm going to go ahead and click that and he's going to say that Twitter is going to send me a text message with a confirmation code.
So I'll press get started and he's going to do this on mobile.twitter.com. So I'll go ahead and log into my account one more time and then it's going to take me to the page to enter my password. So I'll type in my password. One more time here and then I'll press verify and here I'll have to type in my phone number because I chose the text message option.
So I'll type that in and press next and now I should receive a confirmation code and I could go ahead and type that code right over here and press next and it's going to give me a single-use backup code here. So I could go ahead and save this. I could go ahead and take this quick screenshot and save it in a secure place and I could go ahead and press got it on the bottom and now I have two-factor authentication turned on on Twitter. So if I try to use a different device to log into my Twitter, It's going to ask me to send me a text message and I have to verify it using my phone. Now, this automatically does it on twitter.com too, when you do the mobile app update, but I'll show you where that is just in case you want to start there now on twitter.com.
Log into your profile page here. So I'm on my account and down here, I just need to press the more option over here, and then it's going to let me go to setting and privacy. One more time, settings and privacy and on this page again, I want to click that count tab right on top and it's going to give me these options on this site, and again, I want to go to security. Your password reset option is right on top of that too. On the security page. Again, you have two-factor authentication, so you could go ahead and click this and since I did the text message option on the phone is already checked on. But if you do this first, choose one of these options and go through the setup process of two-factor authentication, and then you could also change your password right after you do the two-factor authentication to keep everything nice and secure.
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