Can you judge a man by his friends? - Enhancing spammer detection on the twitter microblogging platform using friends and followers

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 54, Issue , 2010, Pages 210-220

  Moh, Teng Sheng ^a   Murmann, Alexander J ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification algorithm; Learning process; Machine learning; Microblogging; Online social networks; Online trust; Spammer detection; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; GAIN INFORMATION; LEARNING PROCESS; ONLINE TRUST; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SPAMMERS; TEXTUAL CONTENT;

INTERNET; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77951126973     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12035-0_21     Document Type: Article

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