Click Traffic Analysis of Short URL Spam on Twitter

Wang, De and Navathe, Shamkant and Liu, Ling and Irani, Danesh and Tamersoy, Acar and Pu, Calton (2013) Click Traffic Analysis of Short URL Spam on Twitter. In: 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing.

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Abstract

With an average of 80% length reduction, the URL shorteners have become the norm for sharing URLs on Twitter, mainly due to the 140-character limit per message. Unfortunately, spammers have also adopted the URL shorteners to camouflage and improve the user click-through of their spam URLs. In this p

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Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2026 10:06
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2026 20:47
URI: http://eprints.eai.eu/id/eprint/10660

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