Came across something very interesting when on twitter the other day. For all you other tweeters you may have seen this too..

It appeared that Gary Glitter had made a twitter account and had claimed over 200,000 followers in a matter of weeks. However, after much controversy it turned out that this was a fake account set up by a person to highlight the ease at which sex offenders could access twitter and other peoples accounts. The person argued that although @officialgaryglitter received a lot of hate mail, he also received a lot of support. The person wanted to highlight to parents how easy it was for sex offenders to set up fake accounts and the dangers their children may face when on sites such as twitter. Although twitter recommends that people should be of age 13 or above to use twitter, there is no actual age restrictions. It also has no way of filtering content or people who sign up i.e sex offenders etc. The article was really interesting, especially when we are perhaps trying to encourage children to use these sites...