A Survey on Features and Techniques of Blog Spammer Identification | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Blogging becomes a popular way for a Web user to publish information on the Web. Bloggers write blog posts, share their likes and dislikes, voice their opinions. Activities happened in Blogosphere affect the external world. This attract many promoters hire some bloggers who post to increase heights of those brands or products. So spamming is a major problem in internet-based things as well as in social media. Different techniques have been proposed for spam filtering have been exposed across various platforms with varies degree of measures. This survey focused on some of the present strategies used for filtering social spam. Starting with different types of social spam, the paper has discussed about recent developments in the field of elimination of social spam. This paper gives a concise study of methods proposed by different researchers. Here various features of spammer profile identification were also done with a comprehensive and comparative understanding of existing literature.