Click Traffic Analysis of Short URL Spam on Twitter
Wang De, Shamkant B. Navathe, Ling Liu, Danesh Irani, Acar Tamersoy, Calton Pu · 2013
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