Techniques to Detect Spammers in Twitter- A Survey

With the rapid growth of social networking sites for communicating, sharing, storing and managing significant information, it is attracting cybercriminals who misuse the Web to exploit vulnerabilities for their illicit benefits. Forged online accounts crack up every day. Impersonators, phishers, scammers and spammers crop up all the time in Online Social Networks (OSNs), and are harder to identify. Spammers are the users who send unsolicited messages to a large audience with the intention of advertising some product or to lure victims to click on malicious links or infecting user’s system just for the purpose of making money. A lot of research has been done to detect spam profiles in OSNs. In this paper we have reviewed the existing techniques for detecting spam users in Twitter social network. Features for the detection of spammers could be user based or content based or both. Current study provides an overview of the methods, features used, detection rate and their limitations (if any) for detecting spam profiles mainly in Twitter.

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