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A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI.

Abstract
Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging services, which is generally used to share news and updates through short messages restricted to 280 characters. However, its open nature and large user base are frequently exploited by automated spammers, content polluters, and other ill-intended users to commit various cyber-crimes, such as cyberbullying, trolling, rumour dissemination, and stalking. Accordingly, a number of approaches have been proposed by researchers to address these problems. However, most of these approaches are based on user characterization and completely disregarding mutual interactions. In this study, we present a hybrid approach for detecting automated spammers by amalgamating community-based features with other feature categories, namely metadata, content, and interaction-based features. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the characterization of users based on their interactions with their followers given that a user can evade features that are related to his/her own activities, but evading those based on the followers is difficult. Nineteen different features, including six newly defined features and two redefined features, are identified for learning three classifiers, namely, random forest, decision tree, and Bayesian network, on a real dataset that comprises benign users and spammers.

Key words: Social network analysis, Spammer detection, Spambot detection, social network security


 
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MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. . 2023; 11(2): 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14


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MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. https://www.ijccts.org/?mno=144829 [Access: February 28, 2023]. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14


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MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. . 2023; 11(2): 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



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MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. . (2023), [cited February 28, 2023]; 11(2): 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



Harvard Style

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI (2023) A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. , 11 (2), 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



Turabian Style

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. 2023. A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. International Journal of Communication and Computer Technologies, 11 (2), 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



Chicago Style

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. "A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter." International Journal of Communication and Computer Technologies 11 (2023), 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



MLA (The Modern Language Association) Style

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI. "A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter." International Journal of Communication and Computer Technologies 11.2 (2023), 113-119. Print. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14



APA (American Psychological Association) Style

MATTA SYAMALA, DURGA DEVI (2023) A Hybrid Approach for Detecting Automated Spammers in Twitter. International Journal of Communication and Computer Technologies, 11 (2), 113-119. doi:10.31838/ijccts/11.02.14