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Spam. Yes it is true. Any social networking site is guaranteed spammers, but today we will be only focusing on one: Twitter. 

Ah, Twitter, the newest way of social networking by posting little updates considered "tweets" to update your followers. Started in 2006, Twitter has been working its way up the popularity ladder and is considered to be the "technology of the future" along with the Apple iPhone. Millions of people use Twitter for many reasons: personal use, politics, business, news, and of course: spamming. Considering the amount of people I get following me that I can tell are spammers, I would have to say 10-15% of the Twitter users are spammers that usually consist of online dating (or more explicit content), and online marketing. This can affect the use of Twitter for it does get particularly annoying whenever you receive a new spam follower. 

Luckily, the Twitter team does a clean sweep of spammers every now and then so if you do see a decrease in the amount of your followers, you know Twitter is helping out. But otherwise, the spammers just keep coming. So here are 3 tips that you should know when tweeting:

1. Try not to add personal information on Twitter. There are many cases where burglaries have occurred due to a tweet from the victim.  

2. If you are adding some personal information on your Twitter account, go ahead and protect your tweets. Located on the Settings page, you just check off the box and presto! Your tweets can only be viewed by the people you accept as followers.

3. Now if you don't want to protect your tweets, there is always monitoring your followers. Go ahead and do a search for spammers through your 'Followers' page. Usually spammers on Twitter have either there bio or a tweet giving you a link to another webpage. 

I hope you have found this article useful. But if you did not, keep the comments to a respective manner. 

Cheers,