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Twitter accounts have now become most targeted by phishers/hackers and nowadays they don't care whether it's a business account or personal account. If your looking for ways on how you can protect your Twitter account from hackers and regain back your privacy, you've come to the right place as in this article am gonna be sharing how you can add an extra layer of security to your Twitter account.
How Hackers/Phishers gain access to your Twitter account
Before we go any further, I think it's better you know how these guys gain access to your account and below are some of the few ways or mistakes most people make that make their accounts vulnerable to hackers.
- Clicking unknown links that take you to pages that give access to logins of your account to other websites.
- Allowing certain untrusted apps/games to have access to your Twitter account.
- Saving passwords in browsers that can be accessed by the public like in Cafes, schools etc.
- Logging into untrusted devices and you forget to log out.
How to add an extra layer of security to your Twitter account
Now that you know some of the few things that make your account vulnerable. It's time to add that extra layer of security and following these few steps below will help you protect or regain back your privacy.
Enable two-factor authentication
This is the best option of protecting your Twitter account and what it will do is to protect your account from unauthorized access by requesting by requiring a second authentication method in addition to your Twitter account. That way even if a hacker figures out your password they won't be able to log in.
- Go to settings and privacy of your Twitter account.
- Click Account
- Under Login and Security, goto security
- Click Two-factor authentication and here you'll be given 3 options to choose from.
1:Text message and here you'll be to use your mobile phone to receive a text message with an authentication code to enter when you log in to Twitter.
2:Authentication app and here you'll use an app to get the authentication code to enter when you log in to Twitter
3:Security Key and here you'll use a security key that inserts into your computer or sync to your mobile device when you log in to Twitter.You'll need to uses a supported mobile device or web browser.
Protect your tweets
This option is only good for personal accounts and not good for business accounts as it helps tweets by your Twitter account be surfaced to only people who follow you not the public.
- Go to settings and privacy.
- Click privacy and safety
- Here you'll see an option showing saying protect your tweets.
- Enable the setting
Also again under privacy and safety, you can choose not to allow messages from everyone by enabling the setting. This will help you not to receive messages from strangers and also it will block them from adding you to group conversations
