Criminals started marking Twitter in serious during period in near the beginning 2009, and security company Barracuda Labs has worked out why. During the same sum days a key list of a-list celebrities joined the site.

According to the source, the "red carpet" era between Nov 2008 and April 2009 saw forty eight out of the hundred currently most popular Twitter Celebrities start using the service, as well as such famous as Ashton Kutcher, Oprah Winfrey, Ashley Tisdale, Miley Cyrus, and Paris Hilton.

This in turn gaggle a large rush in public interest, which spiked from 2% growth rates in November to a 21%growth rate by April, the service's "tipping point" month.
Spotting the chance, the criminals moved in, with find Twitter attacks increasing 66% during the period. Barracuda defines an attack to consist of not only the making of fake accounts, but the cruelty of direct messages to pass malicious links by jumping on trending topics, and using direct messages to move forward to spam.
The style for celebrities to have a Twitter feed led to a large rush in public interest, which sucked in criminality, and so it has remained ever since with the company battling an ever more creative range of attacks feeding on the fact.

These days, Twitter is like a troubled district complete with its own crime rate, which as of October 2009 had goes up to 12%, which equates to the number of created accounts later balanced for suspect behavior by administrators. By comparison, in 2006 it was 1.2%, in 2007 1.7 %, and 2008 2.2 %.
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"Once the Twitter user base and activity levels raised, hackers were prepared with novel attacks to concession users," commented Barracuda's CRO, Dr. Paul Judge. "As social networking, and specially Twitter, becomes more embedded in daily business, it is vital to understand the nature of attacks happening on these sites."

17% of users have 0 followers, 74 % fewer than 10, and 60% follow fewer than the same number. Fully 73%three of Twitter users have made fewer than 10 tweets, with 34 % having made none at all.