How can people follow me on Twitter when I don't even have an account there?

[LaDonna L]

I keep getting emails saying certain people are following me on Twitter and following my tweets. I don't even have an account on Twitter. I have never even looked up the website. How can they follow me if I am not on there?

[Brenden]

creepers

[Pure Blue Agave]

Someone apparently signed up using your e-mail address.

[Mouzly]

If there's a link it tells you to click on in order to view your followers, check what the URL is. Odds are it's phishing spam mail designed to get passwords from people who actually are on twitter. Sometimes I get emails from banks I have no accounts with, asking for my online banking info that doesn't exist.

Another reason is if someone used your email address to register a twitter account. This could be someone who knows your email address, or someone who made a typo that matched yours.

Or you have multiple personality disorder and one of them is on twitter.