Seven Months with the Devils: A Long-Term Study of Content Polluters on Twitter

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 185-192

  Lee, Kyumin ^a   Eoff, Brian David ^a   Caverlee, James ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MALWARE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); USER PROFILE;

AUTOMATIC CONTENT; FACEBOOK; HONEYPOTS; LONG TERM STUDY; MALWARES; NETWORK DYNAMICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL-NETWORKING; SPAMMERS; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85134438433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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