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A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms

Nowadays, Twitter has become one of the most popular social media in the world. However, its popularity makes it an attractive platform for spammers to spread spam. Twitter spam becomes a severe issue. It is referred to as unsolicited tweets containing malicious links that direct victims to external...

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Main Authors: Maziku, Susana Boniphace, Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan, Muhammed, Abdullah, Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik
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Language:English
Published: Science Press 2020
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/
https://www.jsju.org/index.php/journal/article/view/712#:~:text=This%20study%20introduces%20a%20novel,information%20is%20the%20study's%20methods.
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spelling my.upm.eprints.876242022-07-06T05:04:20Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/ A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms Maziku, Susana Boniphace Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan Muhammed, Abdullah Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik Nowadays, Twitter has become one of the most popular social media in the world. However, its popularity makes it an attractive platform for spammers to spread spam. Twitter spam becomes a severe issue. It is referred to as unsolicited tweets containing malicious links that direct victims to external sites containing malware downloads, terrorists, phishing, drug sales, scams, etc. Previous studies have approached spam detection as a classification problem, high dimension, time-consuming problem, which requires new methods to address the problems. This study introduces a novel framework for identifying Twitter spam data based on machine learning algorithms. By initializing data pre-processing for clean-up, noise removal, and unpredictable unfinished data, reducing the number of features in the tweet dataset using mutual information is the study's methods. The feature selection is introduced to select the most important from the extracted high-dimensional best features and feed the selected features into the minimum Redundancy and Maximal Relevance algorithm and apply random forest for classification. This study allows us to achieve higher classification accuracy and speed. The effectiveness evaluation being confirmed by experiment results show that accuracy is improved by 90% in 0hr 0m 20s time, compared with the existing system, the completion time is 2.022 seconds, and the accuracy is 80%. The research results contribute significantly to the field of cyber-security by forming a real-time system using machine learning algorithms. Science Press 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Maziku, Susana Boniphace and Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan and Muhammed, Abdullah and Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik (2020) A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms. Xinan Jiaotong Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, 55 (5). pp. 1-20. ISSN 0258-2724 https://www.jsju.org/index.php/journal/article/view/712#:~:text=This%20study%20introduces%20a%20novel,information%20is%20the%20study's%20methods. 10.35741/issn.0258-2724.55.5.1
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description Nowadays, Twitter has become one of the most popular social media in the world. However, its popularity makes it an attractive platform for spammers to spread spam. Twitter spam becomes a severe issue. It is referred to as unsolicited tweets containing malicious links that direct victims to external sites containing malware downloads, terrorists, phishing, drug sales, scams, etc. Previous studies have approached spam detection as a classification problem, high dimension, time-consuming problem, which requires new methods to address the problems. This study introduces a novel framework for identifying Twitter spam data based on machine learning algorithms. By initializing data pre-processing for clean-up, noise removal, and unpredictable unfinished data, reducing the number of features in the tweet dataset using mutual information is the study's methods. The feature selection is introduced to select the most important from the extracted high-dimensional best features and feed the selected features into the minimum Redundancy and Maximal Relevance algorithm and apply random forest for classification. This study allows us to achieve higher classification accuracy and speed. The effectiveness evaluation being confirmed by experiment results show that accuracy is improved by 90% in 0hr 0m 20s time, compared with the existing system, the completion time is 2.022 seconds, and the accuracy is 80%. The research results contribute significantly to the field of cyber-security by forming a real-time system using machine learning algorithms.
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author Maziku, Susana Boniphace
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Muhammed, Abdullah
Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik
spellingShingle Maziku, Susana Boniphace
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Muhammed, Abdullah
Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik
A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
author_facet Maziku, Susana Boniphace
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Muhammed, Abdullah
Abdullah @ Selimun, Mohd Taufik
author_sort Maziku, Susana Boniphace
title A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
title_short A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
title_full A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
title_fullStr A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
title_full_unstemmed A novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
title_sort novel framework for identifying twitter spam data using machine learning algorithms
publisher Science Press
publishDate 2020
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/87624/
https://www.jsju.org/index.php/journal/article/view/712#:~:text=This%20study%20introduces%20a%20novel,information%20is%20the%20study's%20methods.
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