Abstract

Twitter has increasingly become a popular platform to share news and user opinion. A tweet is considered to be important if it receives high number of affirmative reactions from other Twitter users via Retweets. Retweet count is thus considered as a surrogate measure for positive crowd-sourced reactions - high number of retweets of a tweet not only help the tweet being broadcasted, but also aid in making its topic trending. This in turn bolsters the social reputation of the author of the tweet. Since social reputation/impact of users/t weets influences many decisions (such as promoting brands, advertisement etc.), several blackmarket syndicates have actively been engaged in producing fake retweets in a collusive manner. Users who want to boost the impact of their tweets approach the blackmarket services, and gain retweets for their own tweets by retweeting other customers' tweets. Thus they become customers of …

Date

2018

Authors

Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

Conference

2018 IEEE/ACM International conference on advances in social networks analysis and mining (ASONAM)

Pages

242-249

Publisher

IEEE