Towards felicitous decision making: An overview on challenges and trends of Big Data

H Wang, Z Xu, H Fujita, S Liu - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The era of Big Data has arrived along with large volume, complex and growing data
generated by many distinct sources. Nowadays, nearly every aspect of the modern society is …

A survey of Twitter research: Data model, graph structure, sentiment analysis and attacks

D Antonakaki, P Fragopoulou, S Ioannidis - Expert systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Twitter is the third most popular worldwide Online Social Network (OSN) after Facebook and
Instagram. Compared to other OSNs, it has a simple data model and a straightforward data …

Rtbust: Exploiting temporal patterns for botnet detection on twitter

M Mazza, S Cresci, M Avvenuti… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called
social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study …

Twitter turing test: Identifying social machines

A Alarifi, M Alsaleh, AM Al-Salman - Information Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Many machine-controlled Twitter accounts (also called “Sybils”) are created each day to
provide services, flood out messages for astroturf political campaigns, write fake product …

An exploratory study of twitter messages about software applications

E Guzman, R Alkadhi, N Seyff - Requirements Engineering, 2017 - Springer
Users of the Twitter microblogging platform share a considerable amount of information
through short messages on a daily basis. Some of these so-called tweets discuss issues …

Towards detecting fake user accounts in facebook

A Gupta, R Kaushal - 2017 ISEA Asia Security and Privacy …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
People are highly dependent on online social networks (OSNs) which have attracted the
interest of cyber criminals for carrying out a number of malicious activities. An entire industry …

If it looks like a spammer and behaves like a spammer, it must be a spammer: analysis and detection of microblogging spam accounts

A Almaatouq, E Shmueli, M Nouh… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Spam in online social networks (OSNs) is a systemic problem that imposes a threat to these
services in terms of undermining their value to advertisers and potential investors, as well as …

Combating the evolving spammers in online social networks

Q Fu, B Feng, D Guo, Q Li - Computers & Security, 2018 - Elsevier
Online social networks, such as Facebook and Sina Weibo, have become the most popular
platforms for information sharing and social activities. Spammers have utilized social …

On Twitter purge: a retrospective analysis of suspended users

FA Chowdhury, L Allen, M Yousuf… - Companion proceedings of …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Abuse and spam in Twitter have long been a pressing issue, and in response, Twitter
regularly purges (ie, suspends in mass) accounts that violate Twitter Rules. However, there …

Tsd: Detecting sybil accounts in twitter

M Alsaleh, A Alarifi, AM Al-Salman… - 2014 13th …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fake identities and user accounts (also called" Sybils") in online communities represent
today a treasure for adversaries to spread fake product reviews, malware and spam on …