Who is tweeting on twitter: Human, bot, or cyborg?

Proceedings - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 21-30

  Chu, Zi ^a   Gianvecchio, Steven ^a   Wang, Haining ^a   Jajodia, Sushil ^b  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic identification; bot; cyborg; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; BOT; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DUAL ROLE; MICRO BLOGGING; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKINGS; PROPERTY; TWITTER; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATIONS;

BOTNET;

EID: 78751493674     PISSN: 10639527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1920261.1920265     Document Type: Conference Paper

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