Bitter Twitter Doesn’t Get Better!

It really does seem that the case for implementing subscription internet, or Web 3.0, gets stronger everyday! Email intrays and blog comment forums are clogged up with over 85 per cent spam. News that Twitter crime has risen as usage has increased is only as expected!

Website hackers, PC jackers, password pirates, zombies, trojans, and worms threaten to totally crash civilisation online at any given moment. Firewalls, AntiMalware, PC Defenders and Spyware Terminators – endless security software is needed to simply try and guard you from the ceaseless hordes of cyber barbarians trying to find a way past your precious portals!

So who are we engaging with on the web anyway? Where do our online marketing messages and social media connections really end up? Deleted or destined for a darker place?

According to latest analysis of more than 25 million Twitter accounts, as users become more active, the malicious activity also increases. True Twitter Users are tweeting more often but the survey reveals that worryingly, only 28.87 per cent of Twitter users are actual True Twitter Users!

Twitter has 105,779,710 registered users!

Further statistics from April 2010 claim that Twitter has 300,000 new users signing up with 600 million search queries every single day, and receives 180 million unique visitors per month!

But the report finds that half of Twitter users tweet less than once a day, and only one in 10 users tweet five or more times a day. 30 per cent of Twitter accounts have never tweeted.

Whilst one in every eight Twitter users has at least 10 times more followers than they are following, only one in 10 users is following more than 100 users, and almost half are following less than five!

Yet, the Twitter Crime Rate for the first half of 2010 stands at 1.67 per cent. Based on the above figures, there appears to be an alarming large number of microblog imposters marauding the social networks.

Does this mean the optimisation of website accessibility for social media messaging, network engagement and tsunami waves of mobile applications are opening up your system to total takeover by malevolent forces, more than ever before?

In the end, is there a bitter twist if you Twitter this?