Friend or foe: Twitter users under magnification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8337 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 251-262

  Sharma, Arjun Datt ^a   Ahluwalia, Ansuya ^a   Deep, Shaleen ^a   Bansal, Divya ^a  

^a PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

classification; suspiciousness; tweet score; user meta data; user score

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK SECURITY;

DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM; IDENTITY RESOLUTIONS; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; SECURITY MECHANISM; SIMPLE MODELING; SUSPICIOUSNESS; TWEET SCORE; USER SCORE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84958551577     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04483-5_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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