Twitter spammer detection using data stream clustering

Information Sciences

Volumn 260, Issue , 2014, Pages 64-73

  Miller, Zachary ^a   Dickinson, Brian ^a   Deitrick, William ^a   Hu, Wei ^a   Wang, Alex Hai ^b  

^a HOUGHTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data stream; Spam detection; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DATA STREAM; DATA STREAM CLUSTERING; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; SPAM DETECTION; SPAM IDENTIFICATION; SPAMMER DETECTIONS; TWITTER;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84891736632     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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