Author(s): Shaik Mobina

Abstract: Online social networking sites are new platforms for spreading spammers and fake news for attackers. Recently, the detection of spammers and identification of fake users on Twitter has become a common area of research in contemporary online social Networks (OSNs). In this paper, we perform a review of techniques used for detecting spammers on Twitter. Twitter spam detection approaches is presented that classifies the techniques based on their ability to detect: (i) fake content, (ii) spam based on URL, (iii) spam in trending topics, and (iv) fake users. The presented techniques are also compared based on various features, such as user features, content features, graph features, structure features, and time features.

DOI: 10.33545/2707661X.2020.v1.i2a.10

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