Poultry markets: On the underground economy of twitter followers

WOSN'12 - Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Online Social Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-6

  Stringhini, Gianluca ^a   Egele, Manuel ^a   Kruegel, Christopher ^a   Vigna, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

online social networks; underground economy

Indexed keywords

FREE OF CHARGE; FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; LARGE NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; UNDERGROUND ECONOMY;

COMMERCE; INDUSTRY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84866599022     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2342549.2342551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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