How to Tweet Via SMS Rather Than Using Twitter's App

Late last evening information damaged that Twitter co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey's Twitter account had actually been compromised. Friday evening his account tweeted about a dozen racist and offensive tweets over a 20-minute span. The reason? Cyberpunks had the ability to get to his account with SIM hacking.

How to Tweet Via SMS Rather Than Using Twitter's App

SIM hacking is basically a hacking strategy where cyberpunks are able to obtain an individual's contact number assigned to a new SIM card that remains in a phone they manage. Hackers typically do it all themselves on a provider's website, and making it happen is commonly as easy as fracturing your Verizon or AT&T password.

On a basic degree, the hack is a solid tip that we ought to all safeguard our mobile carrier accounts with a complicated one-of-a-kind password along with probably a PIN number. It's additionally a suggestion of one more thing: You can tweet using SMS.

In the early days of Twitter, there had not been a smartphone application. Twitter, besides, introduced in March 2006 and also the initial iPhone didn't turn up till June 29, 2007. And despite having the launch of the first apple iphone not everyone had one. Most individuals were still rocking mobile phone with simply a keypad. Enter SMS tweeting.

While the majority of us use an application now if we want to tweet from our phone, the function is still there. To utilize it, you simply require to have your mobile phone number connected to your Twitter account, something you have actually most likely currently performed in order to establish something like two-factor authentication (you have actually set up two-factor verification, right?!).

Once it's connected, you simply need to send out whatever you intend to tweet to the Twitter shortcode for your particular nation.

In the United States, you'll send out a message to 40404. When you do, your message will certainly be tweeted from your account as if you had actually typed it know Twitter's web site or app.

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