Spammers Are Becoming "Smarter" on Twitter
Chao Chen, Jun Zhang, Yang Xiang, Wanlei Zhou, Jonathan Oliver · IT Professional · 2016
While researchers develop various approaches to detect Twitter spam, spammers thwart their efforts with more complex spamming strategies. The authors' in-depth analysis of more than 570 million tweets revealed three new spamming strategies: coordinated posting behavior, finite-state machine-based spam template, and passive spam.