Detecting spam and promoting campaigns in the Twitter social network

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1194-1199

  Zhang, Xianchao ^a   Zhu, Shaoping ^a   Liang, Wenxin ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Campaign detect; Similarity measure; Social spam

Indexed keywords

CAMPAIGN DETECT; ESTIMATION METHODS; HIGH PRECISION; LARGE-SCALE DATASET; MACHINE LEARNING METHODS; MULTIPLE FEATURES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SOCIAL SPAM; SPAMMERS; TWITTER SOCIAL NETWORKS;

DATA MINING; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874032132     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2012.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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