Fake Twitter industry generating millions for abusers, Barracuda finds

The underground economy that sells fake Twitter and other social media accounts is now so large that is it easily making millions of dollars for the leading abusers, an updated study by Barracuda Networks has found.

The firm has made a speciality of researching the burgeoning economy that now creates and markets a number of different fake social media accounts, including Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube and even the much-ignored Google+, but it is Twitter that is now the core of this industry.