Spam detection on Twitter: A survey

With the rapid growth of social networking sites for chatting with friends, meeting new people and keeping informed of what's happening in the world, there are those who saturate user's account with messages that are not of his interest, called spam. Spam is used to misled and deceive user by posting harmful links, posting repeatedly to trending topics to grab attention or by posting advertisements. A lot of research has been done to detect spam on twitter. In this paper, we have reviewed research papers published from 2010–2015. Current study provides techniques used, its type, dataset and accuracy.