20 million virtual account on Twitter
News reports revealed that Twitter has some 20 million fictitious account of more than 500 million joint account on the social networking site.
The report of the New York Times that 4% of registered Twitter accounts "fake, most of those accounts were created for commercial purposes.
The report noted a company "Barracuda Labs" research shows the spread of trade buying followers on Twitter, where the average price of a follow-up to 18 dollars.
The NBC network news in earlier reports pointed to the involvement of well-known personalities in buying followers on Twitter, notably "the losing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney" before democratic counterpart Barack Obama u.s. presidential elections.
To this, the US newspaper report, quoting a spokesman for Twitter, that riding the phantom accounts difficult.
Spokesman of the social-networking website "40% of our registered accounts seems fake because its users write once any tweets and prefer simply to follow others."
A spokesman for Twitter that website also allows the creation of per user for more than one account to be used for different purposes, which is what makes the discovery of fictitious accounts a difficult problem.
The study was carried out by company "Barracuda Labs" and highlighted us Gazette, explained that most of the accounts the accounts are similar to regular phantom where her user name and picture, description and you Twitter and Twitter.
The problem of fake accounts in most social networking sites, Facebook said that users accounts there are about 83 million demo account, accounts that the operation of the site to delete in the past few months.
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