London, UK: Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of security, networking and data protection solutions, yesterday released findings from Barracuda Labs’ most recent study, The Underground Economy of Buying Twitter Followers: Dealers, Abusers and Fake Accounts. The study analyses a random sampling of more than 70,000 fake Twitter accounts that are being used to sell fake Twitter followers. The study also analysed some of the people that are using such fake followers including the recent example of U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s Twitter account.
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