Malicious Twitter Bot Detector
Kalpana Wani, Aditya Patil, Sumedha Mukherjee, Sushmita Sarkar · 2021
Social media plays a very important role in every person's life today. The user-friendly features of social media have made it gain a large amount of importance in today's world. Social media platforms like Facebook, twitter and Instagram have paved their way to connect people regionally, locally and internationally because distance is not a barrier. Social media has increased its importance by providing employment to people all over the world. However, as every coin has two sides, social media also has a number of disadvantages among which security is the most important one to be considered for the purpose of resolution. Cybercrimes and phishing scams play vital role in obstructing the security on social media wherein it is most commonly found to be carried using twitter platform. Due to the presence of large number of users, hackers use twitter bots in order to circulate malicious URLs which acts as an entry point into the target system. Twitter bots make tweets at a frequency much higher than that of a human account on twitter and hence can be used in order to send the malicious URLs to people. Hence, in order to prevent this spread of malicious URLs among the people we have come up with a system which will initially classify the account as a twitter bot account and then we will check whether it is a malicious bot or not and will report to twitter in case it is malicious in nature.