The fragility of twitter social networks against suspended users

Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 9-16

  Wei, Wei ^a   Joseph, Kenneth ^a   Liu, Huan ^b   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; INTERNET;

CYBER-ATTACKS; ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES; NETWORK ASSESSMENT; NETWORK STRUCTURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWITTER SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84962527150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2808797.2809316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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