An integrated approach to spam classification on Twitter using URL analysis, natural language processing and machine learning techniques

Abstract

In the present day world, people are so much habituated to Social Networks. Because of this, it is very easy to spread spam contents through them. One can access the details of any person very easily through these sites. No one is safe inside the social media. In this paper we are proposing an application which uses an integrated approach to the spam classification in Twitter. The integrated approach comprises the use of URL analysis, natural language processing and supervised machine learning techniques. In short, this is a three step process.