Security News > 2021 > July > Twitter reveals surprisingly low two-factor auth (2FA) adoption rate
While some high-profile Twitter accounts were successfully hijacked last year despite having 2FA enabled after attackers gained access to internal admin systems, you should still toggle on 2FA to be protected against less-sophisticated hacking attempts.
Despite the meager rate of adoption, Twitter saw a growing number of users who enable 2FA to secure their accounts from hijacking attempts, with an increase of 9.1% from July to December 2020.
The low rate of 2FA adoption is an industry-wide issue, with users being discouraged by the overly complicated and non-intuitive procedure they need to go through to enable it.
"Overall, these numbers illustrate the continued need to encourage broader adoption of 2FA, while also working to improve the ease with which accounts may use 2FA," Twitter added.
Twitter has been working throughout the last few years to upgrade and improve the platform's 2FA support, with a clear focus on security keys as the primary 2FA method.
To turn on 2FA on your Twitter account, you have to go to your profile menu into Settings and Privacy, then to Security and account access or Account > Security and enable the Two-factor authentication option.