Twitter Crime Has Risen 390% Since 2011 [STUDY]

Crimes linked to Twitter have risen almost four-fold over the past three years, reveals new figures from 25 police forces across the United Kingdom.

Since 2011, cases where Twitter has in someway played a role have increased by 390 percent – up from 174 in 2011 to 852 in 2013.

Comparatively, crimes involving Facebook have increased by just one quarter over the same period. However, it’s somewhat of an apples and oranges and comparison as Facebook-linked crime dwarfs Twitter and all other social media, with 12,803 accounts of criminal activity involving Facebook reported last year.

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