Twitter is one of the top social media Web sites with hundreds of thousands of people creating profiles for others to "follow" their day-to-day activities.  With that fame now comes ways to exploit it.  Cyber-scammers, or really criminals, are becomming more prevalent directing users to malicious Web sites or scams that steal the identity of the user.

Because anyone can sign up for Twitter and do so anonymously, it is hard to track these people down, but they have hacked personal information from users to send messages to their followers.  The biggest example came last week when someone stole Britney Spears' Twitter name and password and posted a tweet to all her followers that she had died.

The safest thing to do with Twitter, just like all the other social media Web sites, is to not reveal every last detail about yourself to the general public.  No one needs to know your address, phone number or other contact information.  Also, don't click on links that are suspicious.  There are too many landmines floating around the Internet that could mess up your computer.  Twitter is fun, but you can't lose your common sense just because of 140 characters.