Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2011)

by Saptarshi Ghosh, Gautam Korlam, Niloy Ganguly

We analyze the strategies employed by contemporary spammers in Online Social Networks (OSNs) by identifying a set of spam-accounts in Twitter and monitoring their link-creation strategies. Our analysis reveals that spammers adopt intelligent `collaborative' strategies of link-formation to avoid detection and to increase the reach of their generated spam, such as forming `spam-farms' and creating large number of links with targeted legitimate users. The observations are verified through the analysis of a giant `spam-farm' embedded within the Twitter OSN.

Spammers' Networks Within Online Social Networks: A Case-Study on Twitter was presented at this event.

Keywords: World Wide Web

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