Short links under attack: Geographical analysis of spam in a URL shortener network

HT'12 - Proceedings of 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 83-87

  Klien, Florian ^a   Strohmaier, Markus ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Spam; URL shortener

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; FACEBOOK; GEOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS; LINK ANALYSIS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SHORTENED URLS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPAM; URL SHORTENER; USER ATTENTION;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPAMMING;

INTERNET;

EID: 84864056933     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2309996.2310010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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