Die free or live hard? Empirical evaluation and new design for fighting evolving twitter spammers

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6961 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 318-337

  Yang, Chao ^a   Harkreader, Robert Chandler ^a   Gu, Guofei ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RATES; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; NEW DESIGN; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; SPAMMERS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

INTRUSION DETECTION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84863160317     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23644-0_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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