How can someone be following me on Twitter when I'm not on Twitter?

[undeterred]

I just got an email saying so and so is following me.

Is it mandatory now?!

[mikelgb]

1. this happened to me as well

turned out I had signed up to follow Dennis Kucinich way back before anybody was talking about twitter

I had three followers before i realized I had a twitter account

so I bet if you go try to log in to twitter using a username and password that you would normally use, you will probably get in

[Mojambo]

2. There is an email virus going around

It sends an email saying someone has invited you to Twitter.

Doesn't seem to be what you've got, but be careful.

http://www.prlog.org/10245000-red-condor-warns-of-new-twitter-invitation-virus.html

[eShirl]

3. I got some kind of a porn spam follower

every other post of theirs was supposedly a link to their naked pix

I'm pretty sure i can find naked pix on the internet all by myself, if I ever need to

[calico1]

4. People who follow me are going to be

pretty bored. I never do anything on Twitter yet I get followed.



:shrug:

[Party Person]

5. Yes. It's very stalker-friendly.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. Yes, you WILL be followed and you WILL like it.

As stated elsewhere in this thread, there's an invitation virus going around. Me? I just block "Followers" I'm not interested in...one easy click.

[tridim]

7. All 3 of my "followers" are spammers

Joy. :eyes:

I had to join before I figured out that Twitter is mostly crap, spam and FAIL, and this is before Twitter inevitably decides to include ads. No doubt their investors want to make money.