Ell1111/Twitter-Bot-Detection

Twitter popularity has fostered the emergence of a new spam marketplace. The services that this market provides include: the sale of fraudulent accounts, affiliate programs that facilitate distributing Twitter spam, as well as a cadre of spammers who execute large scale spam campaigns. In addition, twitter users have started to buy fake followers of their accounts. In this project we present machine learning algorithms we have used to detect fake followers in Twitter.We identified a number of characteristics that distinguish fake and genuine followers. We used these characteristics as attributes to machine learning algorithms to classify users as fake or genuine.

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