Twitter is one of the best social networking stage where millions of users can communicate with each other, post their thoughts and keep a track on all the on-going topics. Its popularity has reached millions of people all round the world. Popularity of the twitter apart, there are few disadvantages that are connected with this social networking platform. Few of them include spammers, hacking or forging of accounts. This paper mainly deals with testing the already existing methods for discovering useless activities on twitter, and to identify the twitter spammers. In this paper we studied the existing methods to find the spammers on twitter and presented a number of approaches to deal with. We also mentioned certain features that are helpful in classifying the user accounts. They fall into three major categories: profile based, tweet based and network based. These features are helpful in finding the spammers easily. Introduction: The expansion of social media has made the spammers the ability to reach audience easily.[1] Twitter is a stage where millions of users are organized themselves and communicate with each other. Twitter has appropriate features that facilitate the users to explore the topics and comment on the trending subject. Its following has made the spammers attracted and spoil the high volume topics, else deviating from the topic. Normally the fake twitter account adversely affect the experience of the
Spammers can also collect information on people who use the internet and provide their email addresses on websites. This information can be collected by the website operators or can be collected through automated searches. For example, a person using an Internet chat room or discussion forum will often provide an email address in a posted message. This address can be discovered by performing a web crawl of search on the chat room or discussion forum. Tools are available, such as the Google.com search engine, to make this task very easy. For example, a search on Google.com com for “@msn.com” returns almost 6 million resulting links [1], many of which contain email addresses of users of MSN, a popular Microsoft email service.
Twitter is one of the most popular social media outlets in the world, having the ability to connect people from all over the world. Though the platform may have its perks, problems such as being limited to using very few characters, being fooled by fraudulent users, and being a detriment to your future career are all risks that one must choose to take. While Twitter may offers many benefits, one must realize all of the consequences that they may be faced with when joining the social media
One of the advantages of twitter is a very simple and educational social network. This allows to be aware of everything that interests you, such as communities, celebrities, or just people who are not famous, but they write very interesting things. Although the twitter is a social network where you
Twitter one of the most popular social networking sites. Both personal and corporate users enjoy twittering to engage in information-sharing. It has social as well as commercial utility. However, as is also the case with Facebook, Twitter is still striving to make its business model profitable as well as generate user traffic. Advertisers and marketers are interested in Twitter's ability to provide data about potential customers as well as its ability to expose users to advertising. However, there have been a number of concerns regarding the monetization of Twitter. Twitter's potential for 'data-mining' is alarming to many users. "By virtue of having a large number of users, Twitter also possessed such a database of personal information, as well as a large archive of personal messages" (Privacy issues and monetizing Twitter, 2011, Richard Ivey School of Business: 6).
The article discusses the importance of analyzing spam emails, and says it cannot be emphasized enough. Most people tend to get confused between the junk and spam emails. This article focuses on digital investigations of malicious messages and different methods used by criminals in spamming unsuspecting users are also discussed.
Social media has changed the world that we live in. With so many people using it for everything from personal use to professional use, it is one of the main ways that we communicate. Social media is not used just for keeping up with family and friends anymore. Nowadays, companies also use social media to help them spread the word of their company. With so much information on social media sites, it is important to remember to use the sites responsibly and to check credibly on the information we receive.
Standard syntactic matching methods used to compare the string, numeric and character type attributes of the two identities. Given Twitter identity and a candidate identity returned from Profile Search, Content Search, Network Search and Self-Mention Search, we used distance metric to compare their username and name attributes. Closer the match, smaller is the value of distance metric.
As we all know, social media has a tremendous impact on society and has affected in some way our daily life, relationships, and/or business. Every day, people around the world access famous social media network sites such as facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and so on to find out about other people, others might use social networking to reconnect with old friends, make new friends, or even meet their spouse. The excessive use of social media websites might bring negative effects; while for other people, it might bring satisfaction or positive effects. Technological advancements such as the internet, have given us the opportunity to connect with other people anytime and anywhere in the world. Pretty much all around the world, everyone has access to the World Wide Web via a desktop computer or smart phones. The fact is that no matter our current location or destination we might go, social media will always be following us as long as we have that direct connection. The main focus of this paper is to identify the good and bad of social media, and the current and future problems it will bring.
With the growth of the internet, information dissemination has grown cheaper meaning that users can get access to information from any part of the planet from PCs and smartphones. This has in turn led to question marks in the information being disseminated through the internet given that there is no central figure to provide oversight or editorial work on content. This is especially the case with micro blogging websites like Twitter that are being leveraged as sources of information. Researchers have previously established that Twitter can be used in cases of emergency given that it can reduces the time in communication and in turns facilitates mitigation of such events. The challenge in this creative way of improving communication is in the difficulty in assessing credibility of information being posted a feat that is solved for by the ideas presented in this paper. The task tackled here is improving efficiency in real time Twitter credibility scoring systems
Twitter does not seem to stop in its efforts to bring more people use the social network. The struggles in 2015 led the company introduce two fresh features to attract people but neither was beneficial to increase the number of users of Twitter. Now, the ads revenue appears to climb higher and the monthly user’s growth has stalled.
To the average technologically advanced American, Twitter is one of the most visited social media sites. From a popularity contest standpoint, Twitter would be amongst the top winners; however, when evaluating Twitter from a business analytical aspect it might not be a lucrative business venture. The attractive attribute to Twitter Inc. is the fact the sites does not make any of its users pay. Twitter is designed to allow users to voice multiple thoughts, ideas, or share different information amongst the site’s visitor. Unlike Facebook, Twitters does not have multi-million dollar corporations using the site on a regular basis to market more potential users. Therefore, with a low revenue base and poor strategic development implementation
Social media is growing rapidly year by year due to society’s standards changing and the urge of wanting to fit in. Platforms such as Twitter and Facebook give users a voice to provide personal information with others such as their likes, dislikes, and even explain how they feel on topics. The information people publish, retweet, like and share within these platforms becomes free-game for anyone in the world with an internet connection to view, screenshot, blackmail or even repost anyone’s info. Therefore, it causes a threat to personal privacy and social security especially for celebrities and popular people on these social media platforms. Social media creates a lot of good such as connecting with peers and advertising, however a major downside is the loss of personal privacy.
I would like to introduce you to Twitter Inc., a modern and popular form of self-expression on the Internet. It provides users with a plethora of services including Twitter, an application that allows the user to share and distribute content to their followers. The company also owns Vine, a mobile application where users can create and share short looping videos, and #Music, another mobile application that
Twitter, in fact, is a constraint for those who want to develop a full story in order to get a point across. The site or person needs to be giving the viewer unbiased facts and the entirety of the story so that they may render the best
Social Media catalyzed the interactivity of the internet by allowing average users to generate content as easily as they could view it. This encouraged people to share themselves online on social media profiles. Many users were blown away by the possibilities online and satisfied to use online services for free without considering what was in it for the online service. Many people do not understand the large costs that can be associated with a large national or international website or application, especially one that allows users to have interactions and one that lets users upload content to be made instantly available to everyone else. However, companies offer their services for free, so