Twitter Goes Gaga: 4 Tips to Protect Your Twitter and Facebook Accounts From Hackers

Dec. 21, 2011— -- Were you one of the 17 million Lady Gaga Twitter followers, or 45 million Facebook fans, who got the message yesterday saying Gaga would give you a free iPad 2?

Given that they would cost more than $20 billion, those iPads would be quite a generous Christmas gift. Unfortunately for all the monsters out there -- Gaga's affectionate name for her fans -- the tweets and updates were false.

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