A survey on behaviors exhibited by spammers in popular social media networks

Abstract

Social networking sites have become a major factor of the Web and are playing an important role in the life of human being. People communicate with each other through social networking services (SNSs). Unfortunately, the Blogosphere has been infected by different forms of spam-like contents. The rise of social networking sites made them the targets of spammers as they lead the users to be fed up with irrelevant information while surfing. During early days, researchers were concentrating on the development of Honey pots for detecting spams. Twitter is a target platform for promoters and spammers. The authors survey the related literature that identifies the presence of spam as well as spammers in popular social media networks.