Spam Tweet Detection in Twitter

Abstract

As social networking sites are more popular the spammers uses these sites to keep spam tweets. Twitter is one of the platform for spammers, now the twitter bot is detecting some users and blocking them however it is difficult to block all the users .Nowadays so many users are using twitter, some of the users are spreading fake messages to the users. This type of messages will be seen mostly at the time of elections and any other occasions. The fake messages includes text like your account ********2314 is credited with 10000.00 and some other messages like you won a car, initially you have to deposit 20000 to avail this offer.

To overcome this we came with a approach for blocking the spam messages without reaching the user. This can be done by using the Machine Learning Algorithms. In this we are classified the machine learning algorithms and their performance is shown in a graph.

Keywords: Twitter bot, tweet detection, machine learning algorithms