July marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of Twitter. In that time it has become one of the most important social media platforms in the world.

Associated words and phrases have made their way into the dictionary and everyday life, it is recognised as one of the main sources of sharing and gathering news and stories are often generated from its content.

More than a hundred million people use Twitter - each of them with their own unique username. It can take a bit of work to come up with a "handle" for your account if the one you want has already been taken.

When a Twitter identity is secured next comes the hard part; mastering how to tweet and to ensure you are talking to the person you actually want to engage with.

But do you have the right person? This is not always the case as accounts can share more than one identity. Here's some examples.

The number tweets received by "SNP Yamamori" have increased so much that the Japanese tweeter has had to actually protect their account, so only selected followers can see them.

A rough translation of the bio reads: "Acquaintance is the tweets also do not know many. I'm sorry in the latchkey kid" (we said rough) but many still disregard the political party's actual handle, @theSNP which is a phrase people even use in their tweets.

In the interest of balance we have to pinpoint the former Scottish Labour leader on social media. Or at least, the president of a mobile company in Canada with the same name.

Glasgow Murphy he is not but at least he still has a novel way of dealing with angry tweeters.

We have no idea who runs the account but it has no affiliation with either social media channel of the confectioners.

It's even worse when somebody gets a follow and nobody is brave enough to tell them it isn't the real deal.

Fame can be fickle. Some outright point out they are not their famous namesakes and others keep it quiet. Others like James McAvoy.

While he does not advertise the fact he is not the star of Filth, X-Men and other major movies, he does like to engage with his audience.

On the other hand some accounts lie dormant, never truly being used to their full potential among the internet wasteland.

The Scottish synth trio deliberately changed their name to spell Chvrches (making it easier to find them online) but that message seems to have missed a lot of fans still.

You might not think there is much of a problem with this one, and there isn't - for 364 days of the year at least.

But on December 31 every year the account for a former Scottish football website gets inundated with tweets about one half an hour slot which many across the land watch before bringing in the bells.

Even we along the river at Pacific Quay are not immune to missing out on a Twitter handle.

Spare a thought for poor Steve in Canada though who has to deal with requests for information, accusations of bias and comments about the football on a daily basis?

Some are cleverer about it, even the ones you do not expect to be. While the real tycoon wants people to know he is "real Donald Trump" his people also own the domain name of his own name to ensure nobody else attempts to parody him.

Because who could parody Donald Trump, really?