(By Apurva Chaudhary & Vikas SN) Earlier this week, Twitter introduced a two-factor authentication process through SMS, in a bid to strengthen the security of Twitter users after it faced high profile account hijacking last month. This process allows Twitter users to add a verified mobile number and a confirmed e-mail address in their account settings and enable the feature from their account settings. Following this, whenever the user enters their name and password to log in to Twitter.com, it asks them to enter a six digit security code which is sent via SMS to the verified mobile number, in order to confirm that the user is actually the account owner. The two step or the two-factor authentication process is a well known mechanism and is offered by various companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and Facebook among others in various forms. However, since Twitter is dependent on SMS service for verification, the two step authentication is currently not available to several Twitter users in India, since it currently supports only three carriers - Airtel, Tata Docomo and Reliance. This leaves out a lot of Twitter users on other carriers like Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, among others. We tried it on a Loop mobile, Vodafone, and Idea Cellular connection and when we tried to add setup our number, it gave us an message saying "Sorry, we don't have a connection to your carrier yet." The company notes that it plans to add other carriers in the future, however in the past seven years, Twitter has extended SMS service…
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