"Sorry, i was hacked" a classification of compromised Twitter accounts

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 587-593

  Zangerle, Eva ^a   Specht, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Abuse; Account Compromising; Machine Learning; Microblogging; Social Media; Spam; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTING;

ABUSE; ACCOUNT COMPROMISING; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPAM; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905657950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2554850.2554894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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