Early filtering of ephemeral malicious accounts on Twitter

Computer Communications

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 48-57

  Lee, Sangho ^a   Kim, Jong ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Malicious account; Online social network; Spam; Twitter

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONVENTIONAL DETECTION; DETECTION ALGORITHM; MALICIOUS ACCOUNT; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SPAM; TWITTER;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84946240361     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: 1873703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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