Investigation on social media spam detection

The present use of social media has generated incomparable amounts of social data. Data could be of text, facts or statistics that are accessible by a computer. A particular data is completely useless or until it is transformed into some valuable information. It is essential to examine this enormous amount of data and extracting it into valuable information. Information is able to spread across social networks rapidly and efficiently, hence have currently become at danger to different types of undesired and malevolent spammer/hacker events especially on the post. It is essential to ensure security and privacy policies in social media. The main investigation of this article is to explore the various existing approaches which addressing the prevention of unwanted blogs or posts on social media websites. Here the challenges and factors which are not yet addressed in blocking unwanted posts are also conveyed.