Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services

This is the code and the dataset for the paper titled

Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services. Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan*, Brihi Joshi*, Tanmoy Chakraborty

accepted at The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2018).

If you end up using this code or the data, please cite the following paper -

@misc{1806.08979,
Author = {Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Aditya Chetan and Brihi Joshi and Tanmoy Chakraborty},
Title = {Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services},
Year = {2018},
Eprint = {arXiv:1806.08979},
}

Quick Start

Requirements

• Python 2.7.x To install the dependencies used in the code, you can use the requirements.txt file as follows -

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running the code

First cd code and then run the classifiers.py as follows -

python classifiers.py -b

This will generate results for binary classification as mentioned in the paper. For generating results for the multi-class scenario, use -m instead of -b.

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty

For license information, see LICENSE or http://mit-license.org