Segregating Spammers and Unsolicited Bloggers from Genuine Experts on Twitter

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 551-560

  Khan, Muhammad Usman Shahid ^a   Ali, Mazhar ^a   Abbas, Assad ^b,c   Khan, Samee U ^d   Zomaya, Albert Y ^e  

^a Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical Computer Engineering   (Pakistan)

^d North Dakota State University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classification; online social networks; spammers; tagging

Indexed keywords

BLOGS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC; LEGITIMATE USERS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS (OSNS); SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SPAMMERS; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TAGGING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85049727266     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: 19410018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2016.2616879     Document Type: Article

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