Spam, a Digital Pollution and Ways to Eradicate It

Abstract

Due to the growing popularity of the microblogging and networking sites like twitter, Gmail, Facebook etc., there has been an increase in the number of spammers. Spammers on Twitter seem to be more dangerous than the mail spammers as they exploit the limitation on the characters of Twitter for their own purposes. Spammers have also become creative in framing their content to cleverly escape the classifiers. This survey is thus mainly used to discuss and analyze the recent research that had been put forth regarding the spam detection in social media sites such as Twitter. This survey analyses the papers that tackled various problems faced on Twitter and the problems faced by the methods that have already been presented before. We then compared all the methods present in the papers to see which method or combination of methods could give the best result in detecting spam.